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jhp@apss.ab.ca (Herb Presley, Emergency Planning Officer) writes:
>Further to my earlier posting, I got ahold of a copy of McAfee's SCAN
>program, and it confirmed that the [Stoned] Virus was still affecting
>my hard drive.  So I have now managed to cure the problem, and for
>what it's worth to anyone, if interested, here's how:

Lots of stuff deleted here:

What you needed to do was to a) Boot from a clean copy-protected disk
(which you did), then b) Fix your HD boot sector. Having done that,
Stoned is dead.  Finally, c) Go through your floppies with e.g. SCAN,
and treat them the same way... Stoned can only get off the floppy if
you boot off the floppy.

>Hope this helps anyone else who has been infected by the [Stoned]
>virus.  (By the way, I don't know if you've noticed but the person who
>wrote the message "Your PC is Stoned! LEGALISE MARIJUANA!"  doesn't
>even know how to spell legalize.......heh! heh!  And I'll bet he
>thinks he's smart.)

Hate to say this, but he's smarter than you are!!! LegaliSe is the
Queen's English as spoken here in NZ (where Stoned originated, and is
now at epidemic levels) -- your version is a mere vulgar Americanism.
:-)

>And one other thing, a warning!  I think I picked up the virus from a
>fairly reputable software company's disks that I purchased several
>months ago - a word processor, no less!  It looks like some this major
>company may have a snake in the woodpile.  I can't mention their name
>here, however I will be taking my case up with them so that they can
>call in the mongoose brigade.

Many software shops here open packages for demos, etc., then reseal
them. It is not uncommon to find a virus on a disk in a "sealed"
package.

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