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In alt.comp.virus RDMMD <RDMMD@prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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?

   I think that no virus can reside only in CMOS and survive.

   As for whether you might have had a virus that contains 'CMOS' within its
name, that's entirely possible.

   [Oh, by the way: it's easy to get that diskette analyzed, if you choose to
do so.]

   -BPB

> 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