Am 01.11.2012 22:30, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On 01/11/2012 08:13 PM, Urs Holzer wrote:
>> Some of them actually write something into the gap behind the master
>> boot record.
>
> Surely you can't actually do that in a protected-mode operating system.
> (I.e., anything less ancient than Windows NT, circa 1993.)

Protected mode doesn't automatically protect your hard drive. I very 
much suspect that everything up to (and including) Windows XP can be 
coaxed into messing with the hard drive at sector level without too much 
effort.

(Oh, and by the way, protected mode has been in use ever since Windows 3.1.)

Antivirus software should protest at such an event though.

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