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Started by Lei Zhu
Sat, 18 Aug 1990 18:27
Stone virus
Author: Lei Zhu
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 18:27
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 18:27
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Have anyone heard of the "Stone" virus on the IBM PC? It's the one that puts a msg. like "Your PC is now stoned. Legalize Marajuana!" in your floppy disk boot sector. My father has a few PC's at work that have been infected by this virus and I had no success removing it(I tried booting from a clean floppy disk and formatting the hard disk and even that didn't work.) They do have a virus checking program called virex(vpcscan?); it will find the virus on infected floppy disks, but not hard disks. I consider myself fairly knowledgable about PC and DOS and I've tried the obvious ways to get rid of it; I can think of some esoteric ways that the virus can work, but I'd prefer not to do low-level format of all the hard disks if possible. So if anyone has any suggestions on curing this problem or can provide some insight into how the virus works, I'll be grateful. If you need any more info. from me, I'll be glad to provide them. Thanks in advance, --Lei
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