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From: martin@cs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: new virus? ("evil empire" Stoned derivative) (PC)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 18:29:37 GMT
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Has anyone else seen the boot sector virus that is plaguing some of
the DOS computers at U of A?  It displays an eight line text about the
USA being the "evil empire" in the "impending war with Iraq".
Obviously it was written before Jan 15, 1991.  It wreaks havoc in the
partition table of hard disks, and doesn't know how to properly format
3.5" floppies.  McAfee's SCAN calls it "Stoned / Swedish", and the
F-DISINF program calls it "a new version of stoned", and doesn't offer
to remove it.  We are now trying to decide whether this is a local
virus, and also whether it has spread elsewhere.

Tim Martin
Soil Science,
University of Alberta
tmartin@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca