Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David.M.Chess) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: re: Stoned and Stoned-II (PC) Message-ID: <0002.9007121452.AA11310@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 11 Jul 90 13:43:31 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 22 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Mark Parr : > How is the Stoned-II virus different from the Stoned virus? > 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. SCANV64 apparently has an error that causes it to identify Stoned-infected diskettes as having both the Stoned and the Stoned-II. Try just removing the Stoned, and see if that fixes it. (In general, I can't think of a way a diskette could have two different viruses in the same boot sector, at least not with the kinds of boot-sector infectors that we've seen so far. Of course, there could be one virus in the boot sector, and another in the saved copy of the "original" boot sector stashed away by the first, but a scanner that just read the boot sector would see only one virus.) DC