🚀 go-pugleaf

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