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AimHere on Aug 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Classic Shell hacked with compromised update that ...

A classic Bootsector virus to go with the classic Windows shell...

caf on Aug 4, 2016 [–]

A classic bootsector virus would infect any floppies that had been left in the machine when it booted.

Presumably you could do the same thing these days with any USB flash drives that had been left plugged in.

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