Re: White House and STONED 3 virus

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 19:27:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Grantham <grantham@joe.math.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: White House and STONED 3 virus


What actually happened, according to an AP article I read, was that one
organization found the STONED 3 virus on the disk.  Since they couldn't find
any other potential source, they decided it *must* have come from the White
House and not their own systems.  They then put out an announcement to this
effect, which was received with much joy by talk-show hosts.  Neither AP nor
the White House found anybody else who had the same problem, leading one to
guess that the organization was wrong.  The way the one disk became all of
them is a topic better discussed in the alt.folklore hierarchy.


Jon