Re: Help! "Your computer is stoned" Virus

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From: Richard Kaplan
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:30

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In article <7vznk2q.rkaplan@netcom.com> I wrote:

>A good friend phoned me today frantically stating that
>her IBM PC XT clone suffered a "hard disk boot failure"
>and then when she attempted to boot from a 
>floppy the system came up with the cryptic message,
>"Your computer is stoned."  I presume her difficulties
>are, at least in part, due to a virus.  Am I
>correct?

I must be the only one on the net who didn't 
know about this!  Thanks to everyone for the
DOZENS of replies about the [apparently well-known
except to me] stoned virus, which is curable
with SCAN and CLEAN by McAfee Associates.  Thanks
to mcafee@netcom.com for their on-line support
as well.

-- 
Richard Kaplan M.D.           Medical Software Exchange BBS
806 2nd St. SW # 104          (507) 281-1989 14,400 HST
Rochester, MN  55902          (507) 281-1689 Voice
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Subject: Re: Help!  "Your computer is stoned" Virus
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