is it normal to have more than one file showing in boot section of a anti virus scan?

Question

For a couple of years when I did a virus scan my boot only ever showed one file, lately since I updated my anti virus and also added some drivers when I scan for virus it first showed 2 files in boot and now is showing 5 is something wrong with that?

Answer 1

Every physical hard disk has a Master Boot Record. Every logical drive has a boot sector. So, normally, your anti-virus software should report more than one boot sector scanned. Their number is equal to the number of your physical hard disks plus the number of logical disk drives (i.e., C:, D:, etc.) that you have on these physical hard disks.

Most likely, before you had a single disk with a single partition on it (drive C:) - so you had 2 boot sectors. Now you probably still have a single physical disk - but it's probably bigger and partitioned into several logical partitions - drives C:, D:, E: and F: - thus the total number of boot sectors is now 5.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

No there is nothing wrong with that. A boot sector is basically a little place in your hard drive that has all the stuff you need to start up your computer. So for example since you added some drivers those drivers may start up when your computer does thus making the boot sector increase. Dont worry about boot sectors unless there is a virus in it. But thats a whole other story.

Answer 4

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