German PC outfit Medion had unknowingly shipped a new batch of laptops loaded with a 13-year-old virus named Stoned.Angelina.

The PC company announced on its Danish website that some laptops infected by the virus were distributed and sold through Danish local retail chain Aldi. There was no mention on the possibility of the infected machines being distributed to other countries.

Stoned.Angelina is relatively harmless, since all it does is to replicate itself and spread to other PCs, usually worming its way into DOS floppy disk boot sectors and into hard disk's master boot record. The celebrity name is a bit strange for a virus, which brings to mind another virus with a famous namesake, the Harry Potter virus.

There is a possibility of damaging floppy disks, however, so Medion advised customers who possibly picked up one of the infected laptops to reinstall the operating system by using the provided recovery CD.