On 20 Jan at 03:13, Betty Holder of 1:3654/144 wrote to Malcolm Young:
>> mispelled "legalize."  They put "legalise."
MY>> The stoned virus came from New Zealand legalise is the correct way to
MY>> spell it here and NZ. 
BH> Thanks for telling me.  Where exactly are you?  I notice you are
BH> in Fidonet Zone 3 and I am in Zone 1 here in the U.S.  I thought
BH> maybe the virus writers were stoned or uneducated, but I guess
BH> I was wrong.  But someone must have gotten hold of the virus and
BH> changed the dialect of the language then, since the more recent
BH> variants spell it our way.
STONED must be about the most hacked virus around. 
I have seen more hacks of it than any other virus, and it is easily done. 
Most hacks change the text and nothing else and are schoolboy pranks.
Regards,
Chris Maddock
chrism@softtech.brisnet.org.au
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