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Re: [News] Infecting the MBR is now back in fashion

____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 15:48 : \____

> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>> 
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7183008.stm
>> 
>> Remember the good ol' days of Amiga boot sector viruses, Ghost?
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer_Exterminator_(computer_virus)
>> 
>> Some things never change, it seems, on closed source systems at least.
>> 
> 
> And the DOS ones, too.  Of course, back then, before Microsoft-based
> computers were networked, it used to take some time for viruses to get
> around...

Poor Novell servers got crippled.

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