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From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Stoned virus in partition table (PC)
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Date: 23 Jan 91 02:26:37 GMT
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I work in the CS Student Lab at UT Austin.  Doing a routine check on
the IBM compatibles, I found the Stoned virus on the partition table.
This sounds harmless enough, but this virus is VERY much stuck there.
I've done a low- level format, high-level format, and repartitioned
the disk, and Stoned is still there.  Someone at the lab suggested
using a Norton utility called ZeroDisk; unfortunately we don't have a
copy of Norton Utilities available in the lab.  Anybody have any
ideas?  E-Mail or postings would be appreciated.

Paul Brinkley
brinkley@cs.utexas.edu