🚀 go-pugleaf

Regarding that infection by the Stobned virus of your friend's 
computer, DON'T PANIC!

The Stoned does not infect files. It does not delete files. It does
not erase hard disks. It only infects one specific peortion of a hard 
disk or diskette: the Partition Table (hard drive) or the Boot Sector
(diskettes). NOTHING ELSE.

It has no "activation date". It has no "built-in bomb". 

Nearly any antivirus program, commercial, shareware or public domain,
will clean it up. 

You MUST perform the cleaning operation by first booting from a CLEAN
diskette, NOT from the infected hard drive. You must then clean the
Partition Table. Then you can boot from the hard disk again. After 
that, check and clean every diskette you own - most of them are 
probably infected also.

Remember: it doesn't infect or modify files. There is only ONE 
specimen of the Stoned virus per disk or diskette, no more. But it
is a TSR, and stays in memory if you boot from an infected disk.
If so, it will infect ANY diskette you insert into the machine.
That's the only way it can enter a system: by booting or attempted 
booting from an infecte disk, either system disk or not.

You also got the most widespread virus in existence. Cheers.