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From: dchun@alcor.usc.edu (Dale Chun)
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Subject: Re: HELP! Virus in my system
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Date: 13 Apr 90 17:24:48 GMT
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In article <1380@jtsv16.UUCP> gil@jtsv16.UUCP (gil) writes:
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>When I booted by trusty '286 this morning I got a message that reads
>something like:
>
>	"your computer is stoned."
>
>My guess :-) is that there is a virus running around in my system (no
>fever yet). Does anybody have any advice on what to do to cure it?

This is definitely a case of the Stones Virus and can be cured by a
program found on simtel20.arpa. I don't have a program to kill the
virus currently in my unix account nor have easy access to one.

							...dale

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 name: Dale C. Chun	   | * 2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2.
       Software Consultant | * ...a REAL hacker would rewrite the firmware in
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