A bootkit is a malicious program designed to load as early as possible in the boot process, in order to control all stages of the operating system start up, modifying system code and drivers before anti-virus and other security components are loaded. The malicious program is loaded from the Master Boot Record (MBR) or boot sector. In effect, a bootkit is a rootkit that loads before the operating system.
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