ANSI bomb

ANSI bomb

An earlier virus that reprogrammed keyboard keys via the ANSI.SYS system file. For example, an ANSI bomb could remap a function key to format the disk or delete files or change the N key to Y so that answering No would be treated as Yes. See ANSI.SYS.
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