Hacktivism

The word hacktivism is a combination of hacking and activism. A hacktivist is someone who uses system penetration to propagate a political, social, or religious message. The targets of such individuals are mostly high profile Web server environments where as many people as possible see their message.

The level of such a hacktivist is often that of the script kiddy. Because the whole exercise is done to promote the message and not to attack the system, the process of penetration itself is not of particular interest to the hacktivist.

This holds true for most hacktivism. Lately, especially in the conflicts between the United States and China, hacktivism obtained a new face. Hacker groups or individuals ranging from script kiddies and crackers to Black Hats started attacking and defacing Chinese Web sites. The Web pages of political organizations in Afghanistan became targets for hundreds of attackers after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in September, 2001.

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Information covering the removal of boot sector viruses from the hard drive.

The process needed to remove this type of virus from hard drive and memory is as follows:

NOTE: The instructions below are for Windows 95, 98 and ME. Users of NT, 2K and XP should not reboot their machine and should consult their anti-virus vendor for case-by-case support. The process below will not remove viruses from infected floppies, these must be scanned and disinfected after the memory and hard drive are clean.

* Boot the machine from a clean, write-protected floppy system diskette.
* This will take you to the DOS prompt (something like A:\> .)
* You now need to run your anti-virus scanner or disinfect manually.

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