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HARD SECTOR DISK [6 records]

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Record 1 2018-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

The virus... infects only the COMMAND. COM file on both floppies and hard drives. The infection mechanism is to overwrite the stack space. When a disk which contains an uninfected copy of COMMAND. COM is accessed, that disk is then infected. An infection count is kept in each copy of the virus, and after four infections, the virus overwrites the boot sector and FATs [file allocation tables].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

The virus "XYZ" infects only the COMMAND. COM file on both floppies and hard drives. The infection mechanism is to overwrite the stack space. When a disk which contains an uninfected copy of COMMAND. COM is accessed, that disk is then infected. An infection count is kept in each copy of the virus, and after four infections, the virus overwrites the boot sector and FATs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Le virus «XYZ» infecte seulement le fichier COMMAND.COM sur les disquettes et les disques durs. Le mécanisme d'infection consiste à recouvrir l'espace pile. Dès qu'on accède à un disque renfermant une copie inaltérée de COMMAND.COM, ce disque s'infecte. Un relevé d'infection est conservé dans chaque copie du virus et après quatre infections, le virus recouvre le secteur d'amorçage et les FAT.

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
CONT

On the first sector of each PC hard disk is an area known as the master boot record, or MBR. The MBR contains a partition table that specifies how the physical disk is to be separated into four logically distinct "primary" partitions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

The identification for the sector is stored in the prefix region and is written to the hard disk in the factory formatting process, the low-level format.... This write/read process provides a basis for finding and marking bad sectors.

Key term(s)
  • write-read process

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
Key term(s)
  • processus d'écriture-lecture

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
OBS

Leer el siguiente bloque de datos mientras simultáneamente se procesa el bloque actual y se rescribe el bloque precedente ya procesado.

Key term(s)
  • proceso de escritura-lectura
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Record 5 1998-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
DEF

A disk whereby the start of each sector is related to a sector signal generated by the disk drive and is positively related to the position of the disk.

Key term(s)
  • hard sector disc

French

Domaine(s)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

Removable hard disk are becoming more popular in secure systems where the mass storage device has to be physically locked away when the PC is not attended. However, as they can be used on various PCs, they can act as carriers of both parasitic and bootstrap sector viruses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

On a de plus en plus recours aux disques durs amovibles dans les systèmes sécurisés lorsque la mémoire de masse doit être mise sous clé lorsque le PC n'est pas sous surveillance. Toutefois, comme on peut les utiliser sur divers PC, ils peuvent servir de vecteurs tant aux virus parasites qu'aux virus type secteur de démarrage.

Spanish

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