Re: F-PROT and Stoned variant (PC)

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From: John Mechalas
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:13

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CHIP@BDSO.Prime.COM (Chip Seymour) writes:
>>From V5 #200:
>
>> We may have found a new variety of STONED on our campus. 
>> F-Prot 2.06a identified it as a STONED virus but refused to
>> remove it. 
>
>We've had three instances of the same problem here. In two cases FDISK
>/MBR corrected the problem with no adverse side-effects. The user in
>the third case is reluctant to run FDISK on a DOS 3.0 machine.
> 
>Anyone know what'll happen if we do that?

The MBR is DOS ver. independant.  Simply boot his DOS 3.0 machine with
a DOS 5.0 floppy, run FDISK /MBR, and you won't have any problems.

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