This virus is a standard boot sector infector that will infect the MBR or the boot sector of a floppy. If the computer is booted from an infected floppy, the virus immediately attempts to infect the MBR of the hard disk. Once the Stoned. Virus reserves 1KB of DOS memory. The virus stores the original boot sector or MBR at cylinder 25, sector 1, head 1 regardless of what media is infected.
Flame saves the current month when it infects a system.
In October 1995, Stoned. IDE drives which were still factory sealed.