Ohh the irony that boot sectors are writable in Windows to support anti virus software
I think the point isn't that it's writable, but that the motivation for making it writable is utterly awful and backwards.
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It is no more writable in Windows than it is in Linux. It requires administrative privileges. And I don't know where he got the AV part from
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I assume from the original tweet it was commented/documented by MS that the reason it's not protected is AV-compatibility.
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In this document MS says write to boot sectors is allowed because AV software. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn653576(v=vs.85).aspx …
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