Bill.Weston@f12.n376.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Weston) (11/15/89)
A program called XTREE.EXE is suspect in spreading a very annoying virus. A friend used this program and was consequently infected. The first time he ran the program the computer simply locked up. He then re-booted and got the following message - YOUR PC IS STONED ! LEGALIZE MARIJUANA! I have not been able to examine the infected disks personally so the information that I have is just what I have been told. The Virus causes many READ/WRITE errors and does spread to floppies. It has apparently infected COMMAND.COM and the BOOT area of the disk, The real nasty part is that the chap who has been hit is pretty new to MS-DOS machines. In fact he barely has the system set up at all. If anyone has had experience with this VIRUS I would thank you for any advise. Bill Weston == ...!usceast!uscacm!12!Bill.Weston