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CMOS viruses are real - no doubt for me! I suggest to contact McAfee or the
like for more detailed answers - there are quite some large virus families
with cmos subtypes! Depending on the cmos chip there is more or
less 'waste' space, not used by the bios, which can be used by viruses if
the space is sufficient!

Stefan

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RDMMD wrote in message <6l3g80$cva4$1@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com>...
>I was in Beijing and borrowed a floppy from the business center of a
large,
>expensive hotel.  My pc didn't work very well after that.  Only one virus
>program (I think it was Norton or Macafee - I hate Macafee) diagnosed the
>problem as a CMOS virus.  I still have the disc.  Before the diagnosis a
>computer expert told me that it might be a CMOS virsus but that there was
>debate over whether they existed or not.  What do you think?
>
>
>Bruce P. Burrell wrote in message ...
>>In alt.comp.virus GroundHog <kreidi@bigpond.com> wrote:
>>> So far, all stoned viruses I had to remove, and some other, on client's
>>> systems I've removes successfully! Many viruses use the battery powered
>>> cmos to survive the power off....
>>
>>   Ummm, exactly what viruses depend on CMOS, and how do you assert that
>they
>>use it?  I don't think you can find more than a handful that affect CMOS
in
>>any way, and none that use it to survive a power down.  A couple, like
>EXEBug,
>>use it to circumvent a clean floppy boot, but that's a different thing.
>>
>>   -BPB
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