BOOT VIRUS


Meaning of BOOT VIRUS in English

An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disk s and floppy disk s or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.

(1995-02-16)

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