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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Stoned (Was: Re: Dead vs Live) (PC)
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Date: 22 May 91 08:20:54 GMT
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ccx020@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James Nash) writes:
>How many times have you seen a student
>put their disk in the PC then switch it on? I do it by mistake myself
>sometimes. Whether the author was a great visionary(!) or got lucky
>doesn't matter, he was the first(?) to use the technique.

Not quite the first.  According to the chronological list by Y. Radai,
the first boot sector virus (Brain) was discovered in January '86, and
Yale/Alameda in March '87 - both those viruses spread by the same
method.  Stoned and Ping-Pong were discovered later, in early '88.

- -frisk