boot virus
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boot virus
[′büt ‚vī·rəs] (computer science)
A virus that infects the boot records on floppy diskettes and hard drives and is designed to self-replicate from one disk to another.
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boot virus
An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on
hard disks and floppy disks 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.
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