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ANTICMOS.A
Overview

Malware type: Boot

Aliases: ANTICMOS

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: Yes

Language: English

Platform: DOS

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Description: 
This memory resident boot virus infects the hard boot sector and stays in memory after booting a system from an infected floppy disk. Thereafter, it infects all unprotected floppy disks that are accessed in the infected system. It has a destructive payload of trashing the cmos RAM and Hard Drive C:\.

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Description created: Mar. 30, 2001 7:15:27 PM GMT -0800

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