Comments on: Vista Attacked By Stoned Virus http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/ Bringing Fire To The Village: Your Source For Computer, Network & Information Security News from Dave Lewis, Security Blogger Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: .:Computer Defense:. » A virus on a computer… that must be Microsoft’s fault. http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/#comment-54755 .:Computer Defense:. » A virus on a computer… that must be Microsoft’s fault. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:00 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/#comment-54755 [...] Wow… a 13 year old virus makes it’s way onto computers that happen to have a Microsoft OS pre-installed and suddenly it’s an embarrassment to Microsoft that the virus was on there? It seems that a German laptop manufacturer shipped somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 laptops with Stoned.Angelina, a virus first released in 1994. I first read about this on the McAfee Avert Labs blog, but mention of it is popping up everywhere (Virus Bulletin, The Register, Liquid Matrix). [...] [...] Wow… a 13 year old virus makes it’s way onto computers that happen to have a Microsoft OS pre-installed and suddenly it’s an embarrassment to Microsoft that the virus was on there? It seems that a German laptop manufacturer shipped somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 laptops with Stoned.Angelina, a virus first released in 1994. I first read about this on the McAfee Avert Labs blog, but mention of it is popping up everywhere (Virus Bulletin, The Register, Liquid Matrix). [...]

]]> By: Dave Lewis http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/#comment-54727 Dave Lewis Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:24:59 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/#comment-54727 Thanks Martin. I have added the update to the post. cheers Thanks Martin. I have added the update to the post.

cheers

]]> By: Martin Bennekes http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/#comment-54723 Martin Bennekes Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:46:25 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/17/vista-attacked-by-stoned-virus/#comment-54723 The article was updated - turns out that Bullguard actually did detect the virus. Still quite a story though. The article was updated - turns out that Bullguard actually did detect the virus. Still quite a story though.

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