G'day Malcolm

02 Apr 04 17:31, Malcolm Miles wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> Boot sector viruses seem to have lost favour in recent years.

 MM> Probably because, with the rise of protected mode operating systems 
 MM> such as XP, they are no longer effective. As soon as the PC switches 
 MM> into protected mode to start up the o/s, the boot sector virus gets 
 MM> "booted" out of memory.

Not everyone is running XP - there's still quite a few '98 out there.

Regards,
David

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