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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Virus Advice needed
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 03:41:37 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Regarding that infection by the Stobned virus of your friend's
- computer, DON'T PANIC!
-
- The Stoned does not infect files. It does not delete files. It does
- not erase hard disks. It only infects one specific peortion of a hard
- disk or diskette: the Partition Table (hard drive) or the Boot Sector
- (diskettes). NOTHING ELSE.
-
- It has no "activation date". It has no "built-in bomb".
-
- Nearly any antivirus program, commercial, shareware or public domain,
- will clean it up.
-
- You MUST perform the cleaning operation by first booting from a CLEAN
- diskette, NOT from the infected hard drive. You must then clean the
- Partition Table. Then you can boot from the hard disk again. After
- that, check and clean every diskette you own - most of them are
- probably infected also.
-
- Remember: it doesn't infect or modify files. There is only ONE
- specimen of the Stoned virus per disk or diskette, no more. But it
- is a TSR, and stays in memory if you boot from an infected disk.
- If so, it will infect ANY diskette you insert into the machine.
- That's the only way it can enter a system: by booting or attempted
- booting from an infecte disk, either system disk or not.
-
- You also got the most widespread virus in existence. Cheers.
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