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Article #42370Re: virus
From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 08:55
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 08:55
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In article <1888@milton.acs.washington.edu> yjkim@milton.acs.washington.edu (Yong Kim) writes: >I was told that there is a nonstandard(?) virus which peneterates >into your CMOS memory(backed up by battery). There is NO SUCH VIRUS!! I have heard this rumor too, but it is incorrect. The code would never be executed. The CMOS memory is too small for a virus - A working wirus needs at least 150-200 bytes. -- Fridrik Skulason - University of Iceland, Computing Services. frisk@rhi.hi.is Technical Editor, Virus Bulletin.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hafro!isgate!krafla!frisk From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: virus Message-ID: <1515@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 14 Feb 90 08:55:54 GMT References: <437@matrox.com> <J.90Feb13101223@bucsf.bu.edu> <1888@milton.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Lines: 20