ccx020@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James Nash) (12/19/90)
I sent this message to the original poster and thought it would be of wider interest. > Subject: Stoned on widely distributed disk (PC) > > WARNING: Stoned virus found on demo disk included "WHAT PERSONAL > COMPUTER" (United Kingdom) issue 18, Jan 1991. > .... > certified by the magazine as being VIRUS-FREE. The magazine is certified as being free of 'known viruses'. Certainly, the copy I just bought is Stoned-free. Fridrik's F-DISINF does say it could be a new boot virus as it is an unusual boot sector. I've looked at the boot sector and that has a couple of messages ("Cannot find file" and "Loading...") as well as other hex stuff I cannot decipher. This could be a boot sector written by the magazine but the instructions to run the demo disk say nothing about booting from it. I tried booting from the disk on a hard-diskless machine and the "Cannot find file" came up. I think you probably had Stoned before you used the magazine disk but all the same there is something interesting on it. - -- James Nash, Computing Services, Coventry Polytechnic, England ccx020@uk.ac.cov.cck