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The stoned virus is a memory resident boot virus.  Since you could
not boot from a floppy, what could have happen is that after you
disinfected the boot sector etc., the virus, while still being resident
in the memory may have just reinfected the just disinfected boot
sector.

This was the common case at the school that hired me to take care
of these types of things.

Kevin


Irene Lowe wrote in message <356AA597.1F258B7D@nettrek.com.au>...
>Hello to everyone,
>
>I have a strange problem.  A friend has an old XT. It somehow was
>infected with the Stoned virus and after a few months of use, the
>computer became useless.
>
>She asked me to fix the problem and it turned out to be the virus.
>Because the unit still uses 5 1/4 inch floppies, I was able to find an
>old version of McAfee's Virus Scan and Virus Clean which would work on
>her machine. I completely scanned and cleaned the hard drive and also
>all the 5 1/4 inch floppies she had.
>
>A few months down the track and it appears that the virus has returned
>from nowhere.  I scanned the hard drive and there it was again.  There
>was no way that she could have used an infected floppy disk in the drive
>and I am at a loss as to how the virus could have reinfected itself on
>the hard drive. I cleaned it again two weeks ago and she has phoned me
>tonight to tell me that the computer is doing silly things again. I
>suspect that the virus had done it again! Does this virus has a way of
>recreating itself once you have cleaned the suspect disks?
>
>If anyone could help me solve this puzzle, please can you email me
>directly (to save the sanity of my poor friend!)
>
>Thanks all.
>
>Cheers,
>Irene Lowe
>Perth, Western Australia