-=> Mocking Geoff to All <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 GT> What is the story on "anticmos-a" please.
 GT> There is lots of info around about other variants of anticmos, but
 GT> nothing on this one.
it's the same as it's variants really, a bootsector/mbr infector...
practically all anti-virus packages can remove it... there is a
possibility of it corrupting the data in the cmos memory...
 GT> Unfortunately I think I gave this  virus to a helpless female (or at
 GT> least her computer).
 GT> I am usually carefull, but methinks the virus was hiding in a zip file
 GT> on a  disk which had not been accessed for a couple of years.
nope, sorry... it's a boot infector, you can only get infected by
booting from an infected disk...
 GT> Anyway the fem had problems accessing drives, so she runs to the
 GT> computer  service dept. of a large department store and a week later
 GT> and three hundred  bills poorer her ps1 had a clean bill of health. 
 GT> Cant help but wonder if she was not ripped off. What do you think? 
anticmos does not usually cause problems accessing drives, ergo if she
had a problem with her drives then there was more to it than anticmos
and quite possibly she was *not* ripped off...
... sober is the ability to lay on the ground without holding on...
                   
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