Detecting bootkits

2009-11-01

Alisa Shevchenko

eSage Lab, Russia

Dmitry Oleksiuk

eSage Lab, Russia
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk decided to find out whether anti-virus software has learned to cope successfully with Mebroot and MBR infectors in general a few years after the first appearance of this type of malware.

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