Windows Vista Laptops Attacked by Stoned Virus from 1994
This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard of in a very long time. The Register is reporting that an entire shipment of Windows Vista laptops was possibly infected with the ‘Stoned’ bootsector virus from 1994. These notebooks were shipped with both Vista and Bullguard Antivirus. I CANNOT BELIEVE that neither of these picked up on the virus at all. It truly seems unconscionable for this to happen. But then again – in the update at the bottom of the article, it does point out that over time very, very old virus definitions and signatures are removed, and the software did detect the virus, but had no way to remove it. Even thought you can never truly completely get rid of a virus – this is a really big embarrassment to both Microsoft and Bulldog.
