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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stoned virus - HELP!!!
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.210236.7915@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 90 21:02:36 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.165152.25913@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <1990Dec20.165152.25913@ccu.umanitoba.ca> goyal@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
[includes a header from a probably identical article for unknown reasons]
$i have got a stoned virus in the partition table of my hard disk
$and utilities like flushot, viruscan are no help
$any help would be greatly appreciated!

   You can try McAfee's CLEAN, but it may not be possible to remove the
virus from your partition table.  Another program you can try is MDISK,
available from McAfee's BBS at (408) 988-4004.  This is actually a series
of four programs; which one you need depends on your DOS version.  For
DOS 3.30, for example, you would use MD33.EXE.  It will rewrite your
partition table entirely, wiping out the virus and (hopefully) putting
things back to the way they were.  This is a shareware program, BTW, so
if you use it, register it.

   Make sure you do this after booting from a CLEAN, WRITE-PROTECTED
diskette.  It's also a Very Good Idea to make a backup of your hard
drive before running MDISK.  It usually works, but in some cases it
might not work perfectly.  Stoned doesn't infect .COM and .EXE files,
so your backup won't be infected by it (though if you make your backup
after booting from an infected disk, your backup diskettes may have
infected boot sectors).
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