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Stoned.Spirit | |
Threat Level DamageDistribution |
Effects
When Stoned.Spirit is run, it infects the boot sector of floppy disks (Boot) and hard disks (Master Boot Record or MBR), and carries out the following effects:
- It overwrites the original boot sector with an infected copy.
- It infects all the floppy disks used on the affected computer, provided that they are not write-protected.
Infection strategy
Stoned.Spirit follows the infection routine below:
- It infects the computer when it is booted from a floppy disk infected by the virus.
- From the infected floppy disk, Stoned.Spirit goes memory resident.
- From memory, Stoned.Spirit infects all the floppy disks used on the computer.
Means of transmission
Stoned.Spirit only spreads through floppy disks, in the following way:
- It infects the hard disk of the computer, when it is booted from a floppy disk infected by the virus.
- It infects all the floppy disks used on the affected computer. These floppy disks will then infect other computers.