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		deftnerd on Aug 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop UEFI Actually, I suspect that the problem isn't rootkits, it's Windows 7 Loader, the one way to pirate windows they haven't been able to squash since it runs from the boot sector.

yuhong on Aug 4, 2012 [–]

On the other hand, the TDSS rootkit modifies the boot sector to hook the loader to allow the rootkit which is an unsigned driver) to load.

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