Re: NT Partitions

From: <rogerg(at)cox.net>
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 11:36:38 EDT

David,

You will need to better define what you mean by wiping. Can viruses delete/corrupt files on an NT partition? Yes. Can a virus intefere with the NT boot process so that you can't get to the partition when boot? Yes, but I haven't read of any that do so. Can a virus delete an NT partition? Not yet.

Roger A. Grimes
Author of Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows

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> From: David Brown <dave@mrbonzi.co.uk>
> Date: 2003/05/12 Mon PM 05:41:27 EDT
> To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
> Subject: NT Partitions
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> Is there a virus that wipes out NT partitions ?? I have been off work

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Received on Tue May 13 14:03:59 2003