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During our ongoing program to isolate novel antiviral marine natural products, we have found that extracts of the marine sponge Petrosia weinbergi show in vitro activity against feline leukemia virus (FELV), mouse influenza virus (PR8), and mouse coronavirus (A59).3 We report here the isolation and structure elucidation of orthoesterol disulfates A (1a), B (1b), and C (1C), three new antiviral sterol disulfate ortho esters. We believe these to be the first reported examples in the steroid class of this particular combination of functionalities.