Stealth MBR rootkitIn 2005 Derek Soeder and Ryan Permeh, researchers from eEye Digital Security, presented eEye BootRoot. The technique used in their project wasn't new and had been popular in DOS times, but they first successfully used it in Windows NT Environment. The eEye Digital Security researchers skipped one part - BootRoot didn't hide the real content of affected sectors like old DOS Stealth MBR viruses, but
