anti-cmos virus

It has a bug in it so it never does what it was designed to do, so is
considered to be harmless. HOWEVER...
It spreads by doing a DIR on a floppy that has it. It gets into
boot territory. It is responsible for many hours and curses when
that cdrom drive stopped working. People have replaced cdroms
and hard drives because win95/98 detects boot track messing and
simply becomes uncooperative.

Norton should remove it, it's at least 5 years old so almost any
old copy will work.

Do the "clean" on every single floppy and hdd in your place, or the
next time you innocently do a DIR on a floppy to see what's there,
guess what - you'll spread it again.

It came back with me from a trip
to China in about '95, and I finally spent the hours necessary to rid
my massive collection of "just in case I ever need it" floppies....
You shouldn't get it from reading my mail <grin>. No mysterious powder.

I also think I have finally destroyed the last of the floppies that
slowed down
my PC terribly, mess arund with exes and coms in the C drive, and would
eventually give me a message in DOS "why don't we just have a bong"....
Never did find any reference to that one in any virus files, but it
pretty much
has to be a relative of the 'stoned' virus...

So far, without benefit of outlook express, I've been virus free
otherwise.
If you don't count the backdoor trojan one last March.... /mark