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Does anyone know if Altiris overwrites the boot sector?
From: James Moore <jhmiso () RIT EDU>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:38:58 -0400
We had a system detected with mebroot/torpig just before an Altiris refresh. The group using Altiris thinks that Altiris overwrites the whole disk. Anyone know for sure? Jim - - - - Jim Moore, CISSP, IAM Senior Information Security Forensic Investigator Rochester Institute of Technology 151 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5603 (585) 475-5406 (office) (585) 255-0809 (Cell - Incident Reporting & Emergencies) (585) 475-7920 (fax) If you consciously try to thwart opponents, you are already late. Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese philosopher/samurai, 1645 Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. -Warren Buffet CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this information
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