On Apr 02, 2004 David Drummond wrote to Niels Petersen:

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

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

Best wishes,
Malcolm

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