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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 22:22:31 EST
From: karyn@cheetah.llnl.gov (Karyn Pichnarczyk)
Subject: Novell Inadvertantly distributes virus with update
The following is an excerpt from CIAC bulletin C-11. The infected
distribution occurred ONLY on 5 1/4 inch diskettes.
Karyn Pichnarczyk
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CIAC has learned that Novell, Inc. has inadvertently sent diskettes
infected with the Stoned-3 virus to Novell Netware customers. These
diskettes are labelled "Network Support Encyclopedia - Standard Volume
Update." The Novell part number for these disks is 883-001495-004.
Infected diskettes were distributed from December 9 - 16, 1991.
The Stoned-3 virus is a minor variation of the Stoned virus. This
virus infects the boot sector of a hard disk or diskette and will
sometimes display the message:
"Your PC is now Stoned!.....LEGALISE MARIJUANA!"
This virus becomes memory resident and will infect any other disks
accessed by the PC while the virus is memory resident. For additional
information, please see CIAC bulletins A-28 for more information on
the Stoned virus family, and B-16 for a summary of known viruses.
If you discover that the Stoned virus has infected your PC, it may be
removed using the VIRHUNT package. CIAC also recommends that you
follow a policy of scanning all new software before using or
installing it on your PC. This policy should be followed for all
vendor-supplied shrink-wrapped software as well as bulletin board or
shareware software, since a few other vendors have inadvertently
distributed viruses with packaged software in the past. CIAC
recommends that if you are from a DOE site and are not already using
an effective anti-viral scanner, you should contact your site's
computer security department to obtain one. In addition, since new
viruses are constantly being discovered, we recommend that you ensure
that your anti-viral scanner has been updated to the most recent
version.
For additional information or assistance, please contact CIAC:
Karen Pichnarczyk Tom Longstaff
(510)422-1779** or (FTS) 532-1779 (510)423-4416** or (FTS) 543-4416
karyn@cheetah.llnl.gov longstaf@llnl.gov
(FAX) (510) 423-8002** or (FTS) 543-8002
Send e-mail to ciac@llnl.gov or call CIAC at (510) 422-8193**/(FTS)532-8193.
**Note area code has changed from 415, although the 415 area code will
work until Jan. 1992.
PLEASE NOTE: Many users outside of the DOE and ESnet computing
communities receive CIAC bulletins. If you are not part of these
communities, please contact your agency's response team to report
incidents. Some of the other teams include the NASA NSI response team,
DARPA's CERT/CC, NAVCIRT, and the Air Force response team. Your
agency's team will coordinate with CIAC.
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