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From: U5434122@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Stoned Virus (PC)
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Date: 11 Jan 91 02:54:00 GMT
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 jhp@apss.ab.ca (Herb Presley, Emergency Planning Officer) writes:

> Last week I wrote.............
>
>  > I have had a problem with the "Stoned" virus on my 8088 based XT.

Etc...

Herb goes on to say how he cleaned his HDD the hard way, instead of
using CLEAN from McAfee.

I would have suggested CLEAN to Herb, only my mail bounced, and so
did mail routed through uunet.uu.net.

Can you supply a proper path Herb?  Send me an email message, and I
will tell you what your path to/from me is. (I don't know until you
send mail to me.)

> Hope this helps anyone else who has been infected by the [Stoned]
> virus.  (By the way, I don't know if you've noticed but the person who
> wrote the message "Your PC is Stoned! LEGALISE MARIJUANA!"  doesn't
> even know how to spell legalize.......heh! heh!  And I'll bet he
> thinks he's smart.)

Unfortunately, the guy *did* know how to spell "legalise".  The virus
originated in New Zealand which uses British spelling of such words,
just like I do.

Danny

U5434122@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au