[comp.virus] Stoned here

MDLPKI@LLUVM.BITNET (Paul W. Kittle) (01/24/91)

I would like to confirm the Ashton-Tate comment about the Stoned Virus.  It tur
ned up here at Loma Linda University Medical Center yesterday 1/22/91 on a patr
on access terminal.  It was (more or less) discovered by a foreign doctor who w
as having trouble downloading medical data from our computerized network.

I ran the McAfee scan and confirmed the STONED virus was indeed there.  It did
not show up on the novell network to which the workstation is attached.

I have a feeling it may have come from a DFI VGA video driver fresh from the wr
apper (for more info, read Computer shopper last month or month prior - "ATTACK
 of the KILLER VIRUS" where they report similar problem.)  Can't yet varify thi
s as exact source of infection.

PAUL

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