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Boot records
Areas on diskettes or hard discs that contain some of the first instructions executed by a PC as it boots. Boot records load and execute to load the operating system. Once boot records are infected by a virus, the records will be changed to include a copy of the virus. When the PC boots, the virus programme runs and typically instals itself in memory before loading the operating system.
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