Update on Stoned virus infection of German notebooks

It’s worth noting that a) virtually no PCs ship with floppies these days, making infection of other PCs highly unlikely and b) the fact that an antivirus program can’t remove an ancient boot sector virus such as this one is open to debate.

The virus itself isn’t destructive.

And in Windows XP and Vista, you would have to have a floppy in the drive while the system is booting in order to get infected.

In a way, it's more of a novelty to see such an old virus (which is no longer even on the Wildlist).

However, the point is that if you’re infected, you would want to clean it, and a number of notebooks shipped from Medion with this virus.

BullGuard, the antivirus product included with the notebook, was initially unable to remove it, although the company has an update on its website which should do the job.

Here is more from Andreas Marx: Introduction: Medion shipped some notebooks together with a boot virus from 1994 (!)... and it looks like quite some AV tools had problems with the detection and/or removal of this critter.

For example, the AV software installed on the system reported this virus on every reboot, but was unable to remove it.