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Archive of entries posted on 4th February 2010

“Slovak biker spat linked to rare destructive worm”

Wow, this is a blast from the past — a worm that overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the hard drive. I haven’t seen one of those since the early nineties. But believe it or not, that’s not really destructive… just fdisk /mbr to rebuild the MBR, and unless the worm has done a [...]