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Re: anticmos
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Michael Chan <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:31:10 +0800
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:22:00 +0200, "Swartz, Richard (DUU)"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On the 26th (or the 24th?) of the month (I'm not sure if it's any month, or
>just the month August) the CIH Virus supposedly overwrites the CMOS ram. On

As far as I know, the CIH only attacks the Windows 95 executable files(32
bit version), but it would not attack the CMOS. Only some kinds of
anti-BIOS virus like WelcomeB(the most famous) can attack the CMOS data.



 Michael

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