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Re: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:21:06 -0400

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:49:37 BST, Toralv_Dirro () McAfee com said:
Boot sector viruses don't spread easily (read: 'at all') under current
operating Systems. Doesn't matter if there is a floppy or not

Then how did it propagate *onto* the gold system that got imaged to create
the distributed image on the laptops? :)

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