-=> Quoting Chris Maddock to Betty Holder <=-
 CM> On 20 Jan at 03:13, Betty Holder of 1:3654/144 wrote to Malcolm
 CM> 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.
 CM> STONED must be about the most hacked virus around. 
 CM> I have seen more hacks of it than any other virus, and it is easily
 CM> done.  Most hacks change the text and nothing else and are schoolboy
 CM> pranks. 
That is about the size of it.  I was got a strain that had almost
no text.  I didn't get a message on bootup, but I got one if I was
to reboot using CTRL-ALT-DEL, and all it said was "You're PC is
now stoned!!!"  I know what you mean about changing text.  I have
never done that to a virus, but I have edited .EXE files and
even corrected spelling in some.
                                                 TTYL,
                                                 Betty
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