I have a Win2K machine with 2 instances of the OS running on a 60GB IBM drive. It has been running great until yesterday. I started up the machine, chose which instance of the OS I wanted at the ...

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging all over the globe, some malware authors have developed malware that destroys infected systems, either by wiping files or rewriting a computer's master ...

Are you getting the “Startup repair couldn’t repair your pc” error on your Microsoft Windows computer? There are several factors that can cause this problem ...

Well I had a server go down today and it seems that the boot sector/master boot record is corrupt. I took over this installation from a previous admin and normally I'd just use a repair disk and ...

A new ransomware variant prevents infected computers from loading Windows by replacing their master boot record (MBR) and displays a message asking users for money, according to security researchers ...

Free project hosting service FossHub.com has been the target of an attack, with hackers replacing the downloads of two of its largest listed projects with a Master Boot Record (MBR)-overwriting Trojan ...

The first three months of 2013 have seen a surge in spam volume, as well as large numbers of samples of the Koobface social networking worm and master boot record (MBR) infecting malware, according to ...

Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as the computer’s master boot record (MBR), leaving devices unable to load the OS.