Happy 21st anniversary to the Stoned virus...

[The_Unbeliever]

The Stoned virus first appeared around 1989-1990 in New Zealand, and spread quickly to the rest of the world.

Wikipedia entry

When an infected computer started, there was a one in eight probability that the screen would declare:

Your PC is now Stoned!

The phrase is found in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks along with the phrase "Legalise Marijuana".

I have had the joys of dealing with this virus at my first work - but luckily it was easy to clean up - boot from an uninfected DOS boot diskette, and run nostoned.exe to remove it safely.

It is now more than 21 years later, and today's viruses are more virulent than the first, original Stoned.

 

[SerenePhoenix]

Wow, talk about nostalgia. The stoned virus was the first virus to infect my "speed demon" of a 286!

 

[Ecco]

My first computer got infected with Stoned. Mine might have been a 486

 

[gregmcc]

Now those were cool viruses. Anyone remember the ping pong virus.

 

[syntax]

My first computer got infected with Stoned. Mine might have been a 486

wow, i had the stoned virus on my XT
back then it was just a case of ignoring it.
Space quest 1 was way more important

Now those were cool viruses. Anyone remember the ping pong virus.

Indeed i do...

 

[mich_m]

I'm suddenly feeling very old!

 

[Nerfherder]

I remember the Stone and the ping pong.

Both came from my games....

 

[w1z4rd]

I remember the stoned virus, it said "Your computer is stoned." Haha

 

[luxe]

my most painful virus ever was exebug.

goddamnit that was a pain.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_432.htm

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Ah, good old exebug.

Cussed and cursed it as well...

Remember the Cascade virus? Now that one was cool