RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Do any new computers include a floppy drive nowadays. ;-)

Richard

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:12 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops

Some references:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/german-computer-maker-ships-laptops.
html
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2007/09_14.xml
http://www.medion.de/popup_md96290.htm
http://www.bullguard.com/support/tech-guides/how-to-remove-stonedangelina.as
px

After digging the specifications from Medion's site it appears that these
models (MD 96290 Notebook) don't include a floppy drive:
http://www.medion.de/md96290/nord/_content/techdetails/index.html

This is the only good news, the virus can't spread so easily.

I have written this entry
http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=998

too and posted the case to /.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1623230

- Juha-Matti
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