Stoned on non-dos partition (PC)

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From: Hani Jabr
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:17

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The machine at work is currently running on non-standard PC-MOS 
version 6.1 to 6.2.

This is bad.

A stoned virus has somehow attatched itself to the hard disk and copies
itself to all the floppies inserted in all the floppy drives.

I would appreciate anyone getting back to me about how Stoned works, 
or where it may rest on the hard disk.  The simple solution of deleting 
the partition and reinstalling won't work because the program we use
has a database, backed up and infected. 

Thanks for any help you may give me.

P.S. Any information on Stoned will probably be helpful, so don't
hesitate mail me.

[HAN]

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Subject: Stoned on non-dos partition (PC)
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