With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging all over the globe, some malware authors have developed malware that destroys infected systems, either by wiping files or rewriting a computer's master ...

Boot Sector Viruses are malicious programs that reside in your hard drive. They infect your machine by replacing your Master Boot Record (MBR) or DOS Boot Sector with their code. In some cases, boot ...

A new Thanos ransomware strain is trying and failing to deliver the ransom note onto compromised systems by overwriting the computers' Windows master boot record (MBR). The new Windows MBR locker ...

It’s hard enough for non-technical users to deal with ransomware infections: understanding public-key cryptography, connecting to the Tor anonymity network and paying with Bitcoin cryptocurrency. A ...

A new ransomware variant prevents infected computers from loading Windows by replacing their master boot record (MBR) and displays a message asking users for money, according to security researchers ...

I have 2 hd's, 40gig running Winxp/win2k and a 20gig running Linux RH. I want to remove the 20 gig and replace it with an 80gig. The problem is LILO. I know that format/mbr removes it, but will it ...

A friend of mine asked me to fix his USB flash drive. It's an HP 4GB drive. My notebook is running Windows 7 64-bit. When I connected the drive to my computer, Windows installed the drivers but it ...