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Master boot sector virus
A virus that infects the system's master boot record on hard drives and the boot sector on floppy disks. This type of virus takes control of the system at a low level by activating between the system hardware and the operating system. A master boot sector virus loads into memory during boot up, before virus-detection code executes.
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