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	Computer virus information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A virus is a piece of software designed and written to adversely affect your computer by altering the way it works without your knowledge or permission.
		A malignant virus is one that attempts to inflict malicious damage to your computer, although the damage may not be intentional.
		Computer viruses don't infect files on write-protected disks and don't infect documents, except in the case of Word macro viruses, which infect only documents and templates written in Word 6.0 or higher.
	www.gcc.mass.edu /offices/cs/virus.html (1622 words)

	CyberWire Dispatch: The media tanks on viruses . . . again. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On March 6, 1992, the Michelangelo virus was set to destroy the world's computers.
		As with Michelangelo, almost every major media organization carried stories on hackers said to be running wild writing computer viruses for the New Year.
		So while the number of virus reports in the media in the space of a few weeks at the end of 1999 seemed quite remarkable, even a trend, it was not.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~crypt/other/cwd.htm (1850 words)

	VIRUS-L/comp.virus Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) v2.00
		Cohen's formal definition (model) of a virus does not easily translate into "human language", but his own, well-known, informal definition is "a computer virus is a computer program that can infect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved) copy of itself".
		In fact, the virus is not a threat at this point since control of the CPU is never passed to the virus code residing in the buffer.
		The third kind of virus simulators are not useful for this purpose--they do not show how computer viruses work, do not show what computer viruses do, and because their virus fragments are not reliably detected as viruses by many good scanners, may give the wrong impression of a scanner's value.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/computer-virus/faq (21794 words)

	Douglas Thomas
		While most people are acquainted with the idea and effects of computer viruses, few understand the social, cultural, and political implications from either the point of view of virus writers or from the impact that narratives of viral infection have had on the popular imagination.
		The first is an effort to historicize the notion of viral infection in terms of its relation to the moment of technological transformation when it became possible to speak of a computer virus and to trace out the impact of this transformation on computer culture, popular representations of computers and viruses, and the computer industry.
		Third, this work approaches the culture of underground virus writers ethnographically to apprehend the cultural, social, and political motives of this group of programmers who actively constitute themselves as a subculture of technology that is both driven by these narratives of viral infection as well as constitutive of them.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~douglast/book4.shtml (885 words)

	National Security Notes
		Through the second half of February of 1992, computer magazines and, more interestingly, daily newspapers were filled with news about the computer virus poised to destroy data on March 6.
		Michelangelo was "a mugger hiding in the closet" read one, a claim that was generally representative of the wisdom on the subject.
		Computer viruses could never have been eliminated but -- by the same token -- the electronic infrastructure in which they flourish did not have to built so ignorantly and haphazardly that hundreds of thousands of computers can easily be infected in moments.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/nsn/nsn-040206.htm (2549 words)

	March Madness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For Richard Hins, however, this date marks the birth of the Michelangelo computer virus, and the death of his PC in 1995.
		Michelangelo is a boot sector virus which invades a user's machine when that machine is booted from a Michelangelo-infected diskette.
		When that date is finally displayed, the virus springs to life, overwriting the computer's file allocation tables, destroying 8.9 megabytes of data, and rendering all information inaccessible.
	www.uwrf.edu /~kk00/ase_study.html (430 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Computer viruses now 20 years old
		Virus writers have adapted to new technology as it has emerged and the most virulent programs use the net to find new victims and cause havoc.
		In 1992 the Michelangelo virus, that was due to strike on 6 March, caught the media's attention but the chaos it was predicted to cause never materialised.
		The Melissa virus that struck in March 1999 marked a new trend as it combined a macro virus with one that plundered the address book of Microsoft Outlook to e-mail itself to new victims.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/3257165.stm (683 words)

	F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Michelangelo
		This Stoned variant will activate on the birthday of Michelangelo Bounnaroti, who was born on March 6.
		The virus overwrites the first 17 sectors on heads 0-3 on the first 256 tracks of the disk the machine has been booted from.
		There are also at least two file viruses that occasionally 'drop' the Michelangelo virus to hard drives master boot sector, namely Prague.Pizza and HLLC.Enrico.A. Michelangelo used to be very widespread in the early 1990s.
	www.f-secure.com /v-descs/michel.shtml (130 words)

	What is a Computer Virus?
		A computer virus is simply a set of computer instructions or computer code that is written by some unscrupulous person.
		Just as a human virus is passed from person to person, a computer virus is passed from computer to computer.
		If you already own a virus protection program but have never updated it, see the documentation that came with your program or contact the company that created your program to check on their update policy.
	www.aarp.org /learntech/computers/howto/Articles/a2002-07-18-virus.html (1126 words)

	Computer Virus Help
		A computer virus is usually a malicious program which has a primary objective to spread from computer to computer, annoying users, and possibly destroying data.
		You also need to download new virus information files on a monthly basis, since as fast as the anti-virus programmers put in the information to protect you from viruses, the demented virus programmers come up with new tweaks or variations to try to beat the anti-virus programs.
		The Michangelo virus, was not a hoax, since it was an actual virus program, but the news media panicked people into believing this one was more than it was.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/5649/viruses.htm (1274 words)

	Virus: A Retrospective - Viruses 101
		Like a biological virus, a computer virus is a program that executes and replicates itself without the knowledge of the "host," or in this case, the computer user.
		A boot sector virus is a virus that resides in a portion of a computer drive that is only read when the computer is booted up, at which time the virus is loaded into memory.
		This file infector takes files with a certain extensions, such as.jpg or.doc, creates a virus file with the same name but with a.exe extension so that a user might inadvertently execute virus code when he is attempting to open one of his documents.
	cse.stanford.edu /class/cs201/projects-00-01/viruses/viruses101.html (1392 words)

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		Strict provisions are made to always contain the virus within the expressed domain of its author/researcher and to not allow the virus to replicate or otherwise move to any media or computing system outside of the author's/researcher's direct control; "3.
		At least five days before any computer virus is created or modified under this sub-part, the intent to create or modify a computer virus must be publicly announced by its intended author in at least three publicly available publications, each with a circulation of at least 100,000.
		Since the Sandra virus came into this country as a "naked" file, there is little need to instruct you in how to execute the virus onto a clean, small, workable "host." Since no virus researcher had to do it, we will presume, in this case, that you won't have to either.
	www.textfiles.com /magazines/CRYPT/crptltr12.vir (6419 words)

	CERT Advisory CA-1992-02 Michelangelo PC Virus Warning
		Some possible, though not conclusive, symptoms of the Michelangelo virus include a reduction in free/total memory by 2048 bytes, and some floppy disks that become unusable or display "odd" graphic characters during "DIR" commands.
		Note that the Michelangelo virus does not display any messages on the PC screen at any time.
		Since this virus was first detected around the middle of 1991 (after March 6, 1991), it is crucial to use current versions of these products, particularly those products that search systems for known viruses.
	www.cert.org /advisories/CA-1992-02.html (667 words)

	Computer Virus Myths
		A number of myths have surfaced about the threat of computer "viruses." There are myths about how widespread they are, how dangerous they are, and even myths about what a computer virus really is. We want you to know the facts.
		The first thing you need to learn is that a computer virus falls in the realm of malicious programming techniques known as "Trojan horses." All viruses are Trojan horses, but relatively few Trojan horses can be called a virus.
		His research on the cause of the Michelangelo virus scare of 1992 has been reprinted in ISPNews (a computer security industry newsletter); and he has consulted on computer virus and data security books written by Janet Endrijonas, Pamela Kane, and Richard B. Levin.
	www.cublea.net /other/virus (4285 words)

	Virus of the Mind: Introduction: Crisis of the Mind
		However, as the Michelangelo computer virus programs computers with instructions to destroy their data, viruses of the mind can program us to think and behave in ways that are destructive to our lives.
		The meme, which rhymes with "beam," is the basic building block of culture in the same way the gene is the basic building block of life.
		These are some of the effects of infection by a virus of the mind, an infection we cannot avoid entirely short of living in complete isolation from birth.
	www.memecentral.com /vmintro.htm (3165 words)

	The Little Virus That Didn't! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was simple: On the birthday of its namesake, the virus would destroy data within the computers it had infiltrated through infected disks.
		And it boasted big numbers: By one estimate, as many as 5 million IBM and IBM-compatible computers worldwide were going to be victims of Michelangelo, a relatively small computer code written and unleashed by an anonymous, devious programmer.
		But on March 9, in an article entitled "Computer virus more fright than might" (the subhead was a more confident "Michelangelo kept at bay by early detection"), the USA Today reporter chronicled his frustrations tracking the virus.
	sun.soci.niu.edu /~crypt/other/michey.htm (1554 words)

	Opinions and editorials
		Some computer security offices now turn the Internet off and on like a light bulb, ironically after paying big bucks to increase the reliability of their Internet connections...
		Suppose a 15yr-old announced he wrote an unstoppable, undetectable computer virus which defies the laws of physics and mathematics.
		Smith dissects computer pundit Lawrence Magid, showing how the syndicated columnist suffers from false authority syndrome when he speaks about viruses.
	kumite.com /myths/opinion (2336 words)

	What Was Your Biggest Technology Blunder?
		My office manager, who handled the computer system, didn't know where any of the back-up information was kept, nor did she know where to find the original program disks.
		If a candidate was not computer literate and did not know at least two or three software programs inside out, I saw no place in the company for that person.
		I should have asked her previous employer how good she was with computers instead of what kind of a person she was.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19950915/2626.html (2046 words)

	Vmyths.com- Truth About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes
		Michelangelo remained an obscure threat until January of 1992, when a major U.S. computer manufacturer announced it accidentally shipped 500 PCs carrying the virus.
		Another computer manufacturer issued a press release the same day announcing their decision to include antivirus software with every computer.
		The experts do have a point: panicky users often inflict damage on their computers and then blame it on a virus.
	www.vmyths.com /fas/fas_inc/inc1.cfm (972 words)

	Understanding The Computer Virus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Viruses don't infect computer hardware such as monitors or computer chips; they only infect software.
		For example, the Michelangelo virus does not infect Macintosh applications.
		Before passing along e-mail messages warning about certain viruses, please check to see that the virus really exists and that you are not perpetuating the hoax by passing along the bogus message to everyone in your address book.
	www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us /MIS/virusalerts.htm (212 words)

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