[Bug 987022] [NEW] Signature of Acer utility corrupting grub2

[Rickard Westman]

Public bug reported:

I don't know if you are still interested in signatures of Windows
utilities corrupting grub2, but in case you are, I have attached two
hexdumps I made last year when I had this problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and
an Acer registration utility.  Sorry they are not dd dumps, but it's the
same information you requested and I think it is fairly clear what
happened (an entire block was overwritten at sector 18 / offset 0x2400).
Searching for the signature with Google, I also found these URLs, which
report the exact same contents at the same offset:

  http://www.siteduzero.com/forum-83-584790-p1-acer-7741g.html
  
  http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2010/04/9913/report.txt
  
  http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=436731

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Signature of Acer utility corrupting grub2

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I don't know if you are still interested in signatures of Windows
  utilities corrupting grub2, but in case you are, I have attached two
  hexdumps I made last year when I had this problem with Ubuntu 10.10
  and an Acer registration utility.  Sorry they are not dd dumps, but
  it's the same information you requested and I think it is fairly clear
  what happened (an entire block was overwritten at sector 18 / offset
  0x2400).  Searching for the signature with Google, I also found these
  URLs, which report the exact same contents at the same offset:

    http://www.siteduzero.com/forum-83-584790-p1-acer-7741g.html
    
    http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2010/04/9913/report.txt
    
    http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=436731

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