Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: JPARR1@UA1VM.ua.edu (Mark Parr) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Stoned and Stoned-II (PC) Message-ID: <0010.9007111143.AA09571@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 11 Jul 90 04:39:31 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 35 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Question.... How is the Stoned-II virus different from the Stoned virus? Another one.... I found a couple of my floppies that were "infected" in the boot sector with both. Using VirusSCAN (V64), I got the following: Scanning for known viruses. Scanning boot sector of disk A: Found Stoned-II Virus (S-2) in boot sector. Found Stoned Virus (Stoned) in boot sector. Using CLEANUP A: (S-2) I got a message saying that it could not be safely removed. However, when I did CLEANUP A: (Stoned), that worked ok. Then when I re-SCANed the program, Stoned-II was no longer there. So, does removing Stoned remove Stoned-II or does this appear to be a problem with SCAN. The hard drive from which the floppies were infected was found to be infected with just Stoned (This was determined with SCANV63 -- that's what makes me think that it could just be a bug -- unless V63 doesn't catch Stoned-II???). Anyone got any ideas on this? NOTE: Brackets for SCAN were replaced with parentheses... :) - ---------- "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -=Calvin=- - ---------- |-- JPARR1@UA1VM.BITNET -- JPARR@MIBSRV.MIB.ENG.UA.EDU Mark Parr --|-- University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa |-- (Where you can sleep all day and still be tired.)