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Re:Someone's spreading an MBR-trashing copy of the Christchu... by ez7r6i on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:12AM (#19521834)
How can a Visual Basic macro executed as a regular user write to the MBR? Maybe it's asking for elevation?
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Re:Someone's spreading an MBR-trashing copy of the Christchu... by justwalt on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:15AM (#19521856)
I believe the VB was used to download a binary which accomplished the overwrite.
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Re:Someone's spreading an MBR-trashing copy of the Christchu... by ez7r6i on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:17AM (#19521873)
...which would still need to be elevated.
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