On Apr 02, 2004 David Drummond wrote to Malcolm Miles:

 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.

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

Yes there are, but most virus writers these days seem to be targetting the
latest operating systems, taking advantage of the publically disclosed
security holes to infect non-patched PCs. No doubt there are many, many
security holes in Windows 98 that have never been uncovered.

Best wishes,
Malcolm

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