Parity_Boot.B

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  • Virus infects the MBR and DBR of floppies, and makes a copy of these records to other locations
  • Viral body is 512 bytes and is stealth, redirecting calls to the boot record 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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