The Boot Sector Virus on Harddisk

The virus is a program that can disrupt the way of other programs that were infected by it. A virus is how it works is very unique and very difficult by others, is a type of virus boot sector. Each time you install windows and run the Windows system, then the appearance will be shown "concern, have found a boot sector of a damaged, an application that is running can not continue" (this message in English). If we do check the condition of cylinder, found that the damaged sector.

The virus is a program, if the hard disk or partition in the low-level format or reformatted, all programs that are in the hard disk will be destroyed, including the virus in it. But the boot sector virus will not be destroyed even if you do low-level format on the hard disk, because the virus is working menginfeksi system and create a duplicate himself directly into memory, after that he will copy himself back in the system. The distribution of boot sector virus is most often found through floppy disks, but also does not close the possibility of other storage media.

Examples of boot sector virus chan, wyx, and others - others, this virus can be removed with antivirus features a "security" (such as norton antivirus), anti-virus this virus will recognize this and undertake all the boot sector, anti-virus will ask you to fix the boot sector is infected with the virus.