Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: LBA002@PRIME-A.TEES-POLY.AC.UK Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Stoned Problems (PC) Message-ID: <0007.9104181344.AA09450@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 17 Apr 91 10:13:33 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 25 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu We are having problems with STONED here at Teesside Polytechnic. We can detect it on our hard disks using SCAN and then get rid of it using CLEAN, although we can detect it on floppies CLEAN hangs when we try to get rid of it and the floppy is subsequently unusable. The weird thing is that the floppies don't have any programs on them, the particular case I dealt with just had 3 disks of wordstar files. Does STONED scramble the FAT? Can it "hang around" in memory so that SCAN reports the A drive as being infected although it is not on the floppy in the A drive? Can STONED scramble the FAT of a floppy in the A drive from the C drive or from memory? Any help gratefully received. Rgds, Iain Noble - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iain Noble | LBA002@pa.tp.ac.uk | Post: Main Site Library, JANET: LBA002@uk.ac.tp.pa | Teesside Polytechnic, EARN/BITNET: LBA002%pa.tp.ac.uk@UKACRL | Middlesbrough, INTERNET: LBA002%pa.tp.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu | Cleveland, UK, TS1 3BA UUCP: LBA002%tp-pa.ac.uk@ukc.uucp | Phone: +44 642 342121 - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------