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- From: rkaplan@netcom.com (Richard Kaplan)
- Subject: Re: Help! "Your computer is stoned" Virus
- Message-ID: <m2zng!+.rkaplan@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 21:30:13 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <7vznk2q.rkaplan@netcom.com>
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- In article <7vznk2q.rkaplan@netcom.com> I wrote:
-
- >A good friend phoned me today frantically stating that
- >her IBM PC XT clone suffered a "hard disk boot failure"
- >and then when she attempted to boot from a
- >floppy the system came up with the cryptic message,
- >"Your computer is stoned." I presume her difficulties
- >are, at least in part, due to a virus. Am I
- >correct?
-
- I must be the only one on the net who didn't
- know about this! Thanks to everyone for the
- DOZENS of replies about the [apparently well-known
- except to me] stoned virus, which is curable
- with SCAN and CLEAN by McAfee Associates. Thanks
- to mcafee@netcom.com for their on-line support
- as well.
-
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