Virus/Malware Virus /Rootkits Thread, Work In Progress
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 Mar 11 2020, 10:23 PM
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Just for my own curiosity, are there any known viruses trojan malware or anything that is not removable even after reformatting? Deeply embedded within Windows system files or simply untouchable even trying to remove files from the hdd.
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Mar 12 2020, 02:39 PM
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QUOTE(netmatrix @ Mar 12 2020, 12:55 AM) Yes its called Boot sector virus. This one is resistant to normal hard disk formatting and it comes back again. But you could remove it by running MSDOS FDISK command or low level format a drive. But this virus seems to be totally eliminated since the adoption of NTFS & the introduction of UEFI & GPT partitions. But that does not mean new versions of these would not show up in the future. The boot sector types, does it have a name like Brontok or any long term names? Speaking of future, generally people know windows more and more intricately it seem possible to "write" or create one for embedding. I would read up more on this. The other was CIH virus. This was designed to format your drive and wipe the motherboard BIOS data. Seen quite a few of these during my time working in a Computer shop. New scary versions these days are Ransomware, compared to data erasing ones.  Thanks for the knowledge. |
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