Comments on: Inspired by XKCD: MBR Love Note

By: Azeem

Azeem — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:16:21 +0000

@person1873

Where is the partition table written? Does overwriting the MBR also kill your whole harddrive (making everything seem like it vanished)?

By: person1873

person1873 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:19:08 +0000

Jorge, you’re a douche for installing it on her computer, you really should have just left it, the only way to recover this easilly is to put your windows disk in and use the recovery tools on it, they “should” re-write the MBR to the boot sector, if not then you will have to re-install windows, and again, you’re a douche

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:16:43 +0000

SERIOUSLY MY MOM IS GOING TO BE SO PISSEDDDD!!!

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:12:45 +0000

I JUST RAN THIS ON MY COMPUTER AND NOW WHEN I TURN IT ON NOTHING HAPPENS!!! HELPPPPP

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:52:39 +0000

I rather think you shouldn’t be playing with atomic bombs *inside* the Nevada Desert…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:23:40 +0000

For anyone curious about playing around with this, you *MIGHT* be able to get away with it on a normal VirtualBox installation, but BE VERY CAREFUL, especially if there is important info on the computer or virtual computer. In general, you should not be playing with this on any remotely important machine, just as you shouldn’t be playing with atomic bombs outside the Nevada Desert.

By: cm

cm — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:44:20 +0000

The encoded answer to question 4 is wrong. You swapped the low and high byte. It’s easy to remember this because in NASM’s alternative hex representation (appending ‘h’) which requires a leading decimal digit, the signature word does require a leading zero. (Unless you’re working on a big-endian machine, but you can’t write programs for any big-endian CPU using NASM.)

By: Maheshjr2000

Maheshjr2000 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:29:24 +0000

Oh martin I will see if I can implement your idea

By: Maheshjr2000

Maheshjr2000 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:27:57 +0000

Ya, clamav says that this isnt a virus. Maybe that warning of yours should be a bit bigger for the noobs who dont know what an MBR is(let alone how to fix one).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:15:18 +0000

@Joe:
What do the “linus” books say about writing “Sweet nothings” in all your configuration files?