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AntiCMOS

By Mary Landesman, About.com

Name:
AntiCMOS
Also known as:
Gaxelle Lenart LiXi
Type:
Resident Boot sectors MBR virus
Affects:
PCs
Discovered:
June 1994; Hong Kong
Description:
Common boot sector virus affecting both hard drives and floppy disks. Spread by booting from infected floppy diskette. Diskettes used in the infected machine will likely become infected as well. Two variants: AntiCMOS.a and AntiCMOS.b.
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