Yesterday SEC alerted me that Anticmos Lixi has been found on a computer. Reading the analysis I was pointed to Anticmos. Sounds pretty menacing at first:
This virus has a warhead which randomly attempts to wipe part of the CMOS setup to make the PC unbootable.
But there's good news:
Fortunately, a bug means that it never seems to trigger successfully.
Well, no guaranty ... but then:
The payload attempts to trigger in December 1993.
So we are save given that this date has already passed. But hold it! Reading on I see:
Variants: Anticmos Lixi (alias: Anticmos B, August 1994)
Hmmm ...
In any case this must be a high quality medium, wonder who the manufacturer was. Or has someone created a wormhole where it fell out of?
I'm glad Sophos protects me from it :smileyvery-happy:
Christian
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