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From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David.M.Chess)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Stone-2 (PC)
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Date: 23 Jan 91 16:02:16 GMT
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Tim Trimble <timt@ashtate.A-T.COM>:
>We have had the stone virus pop up here with one or two incidents but
>was able to catch it with the McAfee software.  So the suggestion of
>the stone virus not being in the states yet can be considered false.

The Stoned virus is definitely common in the States; but
the "Stoned 2" (a variant, not identical to the Stoned)
has only been seen in Australia/New Zealand.  The
various U.S. "Stoned 2" reports that we heard awhile back
all, as far as I know, turned out to be due to the
signature confusion that I mentioned earlier: some
scanners would report the "Stoned 2" when scanning
a disk with the usual Stoned virus on it.           DC