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From: sturdee@troa02.enet.dec.com (Peter Sturdee)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: How safe are FTP sites from viruses? (PC)
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Date: 30 Nov 90 15:03:17 GMT
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In Virus-l V3 #190, Patrick Ryan <sauron@stretch.cs.mun.ca> writes:

>... 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?

    The only time I have had the misfortune to have to deal with a virus,
    was when my portable came back from the shop with someone else's
    (infected) hard drive in it.  I didn't notice until after I had
    formatted several 1.44 meg floppies.  I then puzzled over why they
    were not able to be read by the drive.  Remembering that the Stoned
    virus was written before 3.5" disks and had a hard time dealing with
    them, I had a look at the boot sector.  Bingo, Stoned on all the
    floppies and the hard drive.

    I do not know by what other means the stoned virus spreads from hard
    drive to floppy, but the format utility did do it for me.

    On the other hand, I still do not see how the Stoned virus got off of
    an FTP site and onto a PC.

    Peter

    (We don't get .sig files here)


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