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    Boot Sector Virus Protection On or Off?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gengerald, Feb 24, 2008.

  1. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    I was just thumbing through BIOS screens and found Boot Sector Virus Protection disabled. There is not much information about what this does, other than keeping a boot sector virus out!??? Thank you for your help.
     
    gengerald, Feb 24, 2008
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    metril Notebook Deity

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    It write protects the boot sector. This basically does not allow anything to be written to the boot sector. Thus, viruses will not be able to infect the boot sector without infecting your BIOS, which is extremely hard to do and would have to be done with a floppy.
     
    metril, Feb 24, 2008
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    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Aw, so if I dont have a floppy drive, no worries, well, ty for clearing that up, I thought it was some new Vista security option that was a good idear, gar...well when the floppies start to attack ill enable it :{P
     
    gengerald, Feb 25, 2008
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    You should enable it anyway. The only way to infect the boot sector after enabling it would be to use a floppy to infect the BIOS. With it turned off, a virus can infect the boot sector easily.
     
    metril, Feb 26, 2008
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