best software to protect MBR

[pegasis]

anyone have any suggestions on software to protect the MBR?

 

[corkyg]

Protect from what? Malware or users?

 

[pegasis]

Malware

 

[corkyg]

I use Malwarebytes Premium for that in Win7 and 8.1 in combination with Defender.

 

[John Connor]

Use Sandboxie and configure it. Don't know about anti-virus providers that protect the MBR, but I'm sure most do anyway. There is software to back up the MBR though...

http://www.trojanhunter.com/products/mbr-backup/

 

[balloonshark]

Maybe look into a HIPS program or a light virtualization app. You could also try asking on wilderssecurity forums.

 

[John Connor]

If you wanna dork this out check out untangle. It's a HIPS firewall and anti-virus solution for your network. All you need is a cheap computer or server and install. They list known working computers and servers. https://www.untangle.com/

 

[Savatar]

You can make up a backup of your partition table/MBR with tools like partimage, and then recover as desired. If you are sure the MBR isn't changing, this may be one of the best ways: http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table

If you ever hose it, you can overwrite the MBR and write a new one / denote the proper bootable partition with something like gparted as well... though this would not guarantee the security of the bootloader on that partition.