The phantom of the boot sectorIn the ongoing battle between malware and anti-malware technologies, there’s an interesting game that keeps getting played over and over – king of the castle.
The rules are simple: the winner is the one who loads itself into the computer memory first, seizes control of the ‘levers’, and protects itself from other applications. And from the top of the castle you can calmly survey all around and guard the order in the system (or, if you’re malicious, on the contrary – you can cause chaos, which goes both unnoticed and unpunished).
In short, the winner takes all, i.e., control over the computer.
http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2013/08/01/protection-against-bootkits/
