Spyware Information: Kill CMOS 1.0
This application is designed to harm your computer and devices attached to it. These types of applications are called nukers in the hacker community. They often use advanced techniques to disable your computer, like overwriting special segments of your hard drive which cause the drive to malfunction completely, destroying all its data and rendering it useless in the future. The goal of this type of application is to completely destroy the computer it infects. These are some of the most dangerous of all malicious software.
- Size: 21,504 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 112 this month: 0
- Author: Mission From God WaReZ
- Appeared: September, 1996
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- Security issues: Kill CMOS 1.0 attempts to reset the CMOS password on the infected computer (the CMOS password is a password that locks the hardware system settings).
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- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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