What is a multipartite virus?

November 30th, 2005 by uCertify Leave a reply »

A multipartite virus is hybrid of boot sector and file viruses. A multipartite virus first infects files, and then works as a boot sector virus, and finally it changes the MBR of the hard disk. Once the boot sector is infected, the virus loads into the memory and begins to infect the uninfected program files. In this way, the process never ends.

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