The new Rootkit in the BIOS

The new rootkit in the BIOS has been designed to suit the previously detected malware Mebromi, which was aimed at users of Award BIOS.

Representatives of McAfee Rootkit discovered, which affects the BIOS. The rootkit was named Niwa! Mem and initially infected MBR (Master Boot Record, MBR).

"A malicious program overwrites the MBR in sector 0, and then writes the file« the downloader », which is loaded in the hidden sectors. DLL copies itself to the Trash folder, and deleted. «The downloader» runs every time you start the system "- say the researchers.

Types of Computer Viruses

Types of Computer Viruses Overview

There is now a man who has not heard about computer viruses. What is it, what are the types of computer viruses and malicious programs try to understand this article.

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Thus, computer viruses can be divided into the following types: