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From: sauron@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: How safe are FTP sites from viruses? (PC)
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Date: 28 Nov 90 20:41:15 GMT
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maven@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Jim Baltaxe) writes:

>     Just a reminder that the Stoned virus is a boot sector invader
>     and executes only when a machine is booted from an infected disk.
>     Simply running _any_ program whether FTP'd or not will not result
>     in activating this virus. Therefore, there must have been another

Are you SURE?  I would disagree... the lab in our building has Stoned
infections occurring very frequently, and not all of them are due to
people booting from infected disks.  If that WERE the case, how would
it spread to a floppy from hard drive?

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