NYB.A

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  • Viral body is 512 bytes
  • Virus infects the MBR and floppy boot records
  • Virus copies MBR to a location on the hard drive
  • Virus is stealth, redirecting calls to the MBR to the saved copy
  • If infected floppy is in pc upon boot, virus code may be transferred to system MBR and become memory resident at next system boot
  • Unless a floppy is write-protected, it becomes infected when accessed from an infected pc

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Detection Availability

FortiClient
Extreme
FortiMail
Extreme
FortiSandbox
Extreme
FortiWeb
Extreme
Web Application Firewall
Extreme
FortiIsolator
Extreme
FortiDeceptor
Extreme
FortiEDR