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	Michelangelo
		Michelangelo is a memory resident, Master Boot Record (MBR)/Boot Sector infecting virus.
		On 360K 5.25" diskettes, the original boot sector is moved by the virus to sector 11, the last sector in the root directory.
		Once the virus is executed, it will infect the hard drive's MBR and may become memory resident.
	vil.nai.com /vil/content/v_1446.htm (1393 words)

	4.1- Michelangelo Madness
		The virus is named Michelangelo not because of any messages in the virus itself, but because one of the first people to analyze it noticed that March 6 is the birthday of the famous artist.
		Michelangelo was unusual in that it was found in an actual incident, rather than as one of the thousands of viruses gathered by anti-virus workers but as yet unseen in an incident.
		Michelangelo Madness, as we came to call it, did have a dramatic effect, though not the anticipated one.
	www.research.ibm.com /antivirus/SciPapers/White/VB95/vb95.distrib-node7.html (887 words)

	Michelangelo (virus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The virus infects floppy disk boot sectors and hard disk master boot records (MBRs).
		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.
		On that date, the virus overwrites critical system data, including boot and file allocation table (FAT) records, on the boot disk (floppy or hard), rendering the disk unusable.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /%27Michelangelo%27_computer_virus (292 words)

	Michelangelo virus@Everything2.com
		The Michelangelo virus was a computer virus perpetrated on computer users in the early months of 1992.
		The virus, in typical 1992 fashion, was transferred primarily by infected floppy disks.
		The virus was generally effective in corrupting all disks used by the computer on that date, but proved to be overhyped, as infected users numbered only in the hundreds.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=Michelangelo%20virus (702 words)

	Today in Technology History - Mar 6
		It was a "boot sector virus" that would stay dormant on an IBM-compatible computer until the computer's clock indicated the date was March 6 (of any year).
		Michelangelo was discovered on computers owned by universities, companies and government agencies around the world.
		The air was thick with puns in the aftermath of the Michelangelo panic.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/mar6.htm (323 words)

	Michelangelo Virus Hysteria Syndrome [rec.humor.funny]
		MICHELANGELO VIRUS HYSTERIA SYNDROME Mass hysteria about a virus named "Michelangelo" has been spreading rapidly in MS-DOS-based personal computer users around the world.
		According to various psychologists, the Michelangelo Virus hysteria is spread though almost any media channel...
		If you believe you might be infected with the Michelangelo virus hysteria, please slap yourself once or twice, and ask someone to hose you down with a fire hose.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/92q1/miccheck.html (435 words)

	Michelangelo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This boot virus is one of the virus Stoned variants.
		The virus moves into the memory area created in this way, hooks the interrupt INT 13h and infects the hard disk’s MBR.
		Upon approaching the floppy disk in the drive the virus infects the boot sector; stores the original contents to side 0, cylinder 0, sector 3 in case of a 360K diskette.
	ve.nod32.ch /viruses/m/michelan.php (218 words)

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		The Michelangelo virus is a variant of the Stoned virus.
		It is classified as a "boot sector" virus, since it infects the "master boot record" of a system's hard disk or the "boot record" of floppy disks.
		What to do if the Michelangelo Virus is Detected If your scanner program determines that the Michelangelo virus is present, follow the vendor's instructions for removing the virus from your disk's master boot record.
	www.packetstormsecurity.org /advisories/nist/nist03.txt (1119 words)

	Is Michelangelo Finally Dead?
		Michelangelo Buonarroti's birthday came and went Thursday with nary a peep from the computer virus that bears the Florentine artist's name.
		The Michelangelo virus is a type of boot-sector virus designed to wreak its havoc on 6 March each year by destroying data on infected disks.
		Michelangelo is less a threat to users today because the 5.25-inch floppy is on the verge of extinction, said Joe Wells, a computer consultant who maintains the Wild List.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,2426,00.html (558 words)

	The Gentlemen's Review of Computer Viruses in the Media
		In March of 1992, Michelangelo virus was the featured player and while it is not directly comparable to Love Bug, the flavor of the media coverage was identical.
		By comparison, it is edifying to compare virtual virus damage estimates with the costs associated with a real virus, influenza, which kills 20,000 nationally each year (40,000 in years of severe epidemics) and sickens 10-15 percent of the world's population.
		Computer virus story spasms are always accompanied by "what-if" companions that air reams of speculation about potential nefarious outcomes: BubbleBoy with an erasing payload, Love Bug with a corrupting routine, a "supervirus," an electronic "Ebola," a Timofonica that actually invades your cell phone rendering it into a lump of plastic.
	www.securityfocus.com /infocus/1279 (2035 words)

	An Overview of Computer Viruses and Antivirus Software
		A virus is simply a computer program that is intentionally written to attach itself to other programs or disk boot sectors and replicate whenever those programs are executed or those infected disks are accessed.
		The Junkie virus was alive in the boot sector of the diskette that I inadvertently left in the drive, and it ran wild when I accidentally tried to boot from it.
		Patricia Hoffman's VSUM: Virus Information Summary List is an hypertext compendium of virus information, including what a virus does, how to detect it, how to clean it, where it came from, etc. VSUM is a copyrighted work that may not be used by a business, corporation, organization, government, or agency environment without a site license.
	www.hicom.net /~oedipus/virus32.html (4238 words)

	ISS
		A computer virus is a piece of software code designed to replicate and spread, generally with the victim being oblivious to its existence and often with malicious intent.
		When an infected file is opened or when the computer is started from an infected disk, the virus can be executed and may reside in the computer's memory ready to infect another file or disk.
		Virus infection is growing exponentially and there have been several well publicised epidemics, particularly those involving Email borne viruses such as Melissa and Happy99.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /iss/email/documentation/faq/virus.htm (771 words)

	Virus, maskar, melissa, love letter, sobig-f
		Ett Virus är en oönskad mjukvara, som är designad eller skriven med syftet att ändra hur maskinen arbetar utan din vetenskap eller tillåtelse.
		Ett virus är skrivna för att sprida sig från en fil till en annan, eller till en annan dator utan användarens kännedom.
		Michelangelo var ett av de första virusen som fick mycket publicitet.
	www.antivirusprogram.se /ord/virus.php (758 words)

	Virus Protection
		The the best ever way to avoid getting an email virus is not to open email from email address that you don't look on.
		If yours truly want to stay safe from computer viruses such as the ones mentioned above, it is imperative that you purchase high-quality corruption protection software as well as a firewall that will make it difficult for anyone or anything to access your computer.
		Computer virus protection is extremely important on the internet today we offer the very best software that can protect your computer from hackers and all viruses!
	www.computer-virus-protection.com /virus-protection.html (576 words)

	ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers, Volume 9: History of Computer Viruses
		Due to this, many computer users knew in advance that the virus was going to have its (destructive) payload on a certain date and make sure their AV data file was up to date to detect and remove the virus before it hit.
		The Michelangelo virus was first reported in April, 1991 in Sweden and the Netherlands.
		The Michelangelo virus becomes memory resident the first time the system is booted with a Michelangelo virus-infected disk.
	www.personal-computer-tutor.com /abc2/v9/fred9.htm (1795 words)

	Newsbytes News Network: Michelangelo Virus Infected Only 4% Of PCs, Says Survey@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BERKHAMSTEAD, HERTS, ENGLAND, 1992 MAY 18 (NB) -- In the wake of widespread press reports about the Michelangelo virus, SandS International has released statistics from a user survey that it carried out during the first quarter of the year.
		According to the company, the most interesting information revealed by the survey was the number of viruses encountered by users.
		The stoned virus appeared to be the most widespread, while Michelangelo, the virus that received the most attention, accounted for four percent of outbreaks.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:6214587&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (216 words)

	ABOUT THE MICHELANGELO VIRUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We actually received several calls from customers which had purchased the little Michelangelo virus checkers many utility software houses were pushing then.
		They wanted help in removing the virus from their undamaged disk before the strike date.
		Precisely (and technically), Michelangelo will overwrite the first 17 sectors on the first 4 heads of the first 256 cylinder on your hard disk.
	www.cert-rs.tche.br /docs/michelangelo.html (338 words)

	No sign of Michelangelo virus yet \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As probably the first computer virus to which many were exposed, it has captured the attention of the American public and held it for six years.
		When Michelangelo showed up on the scene, "people were not yet used to thinking of viruses as an everyday threat," explained Sarah Gordon, an antivirus researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in an email interview.
		While Michelangelo may be the most famous virus, others are as well-known within the virus community.
	news.com.com /2100-1023_3-276501.html (700 words)

	Michelangelo virus due to strike again March 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The "Michelangelo" virus, which is an especially destructive strain, may erase parts of a user's hard drive.
		Michelangelo is only one of more than 700 identified viruses that can infect a computer.
		"Even though you may not have the Michelangelo virus, your computer may be infected with something else," Bauriedel said.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/93/930301Arc3381.html (328 words)

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		Michelangelo is a memory resident infector of diskette boot sectors and the hard disk partition table.
		The Michelangelo virus becomes memory resident the first time the system is attempted to be booted with a Michelangelo infected disk.
		Michelangelo activates on March 6, at which time it will format the system hard disk by overwriting it with random characters from system memory.
	www.textfiles.com /magazines/MODERNZ/modern33.txt (1491 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)

	Michelangelo Virus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Upon booting from an infected floppy, virus will make itself memory resident and infect par- tition table.
		Data destruction by overwriting the medium, from which system was booted from: on harddisks, virus will overwrite sector 1-17 on head 0-3 of all tracks; on floppies, virus will over- write sector 1-9 or 1-14 (depending on FAT type) on both heads and all tracks.
		Virus seems to be an enhanced Stoned virus
	agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de /catalog/msdos/html/stonedmi.htm (245 words)

	TidBITS#107/17-Feb-92
		The Michelangelo virus is a variant of the Stoned virus that infects the boot sector of disks.
		The Michelangelo virus is one of the most virulent in that it has spread incredibly quickly and has even been shipped with commercial software such as DaVinci eMail 2.0 and on preformatted PC hard disks such as those in Leading Edge PCs.
		The virus scare has died down a bit on the Mac side, but it's still worth noting that the networks are perhaps one of the safer places to get software since files on well-run servers are usually checked at least briefly before posting.
	www.tidbits.com /tb-issues/TidBITS-107.html (4290 words)

	The Little Virus That Didn't! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was simple: On the birthday of its namesake, the virus would destroy data within the computers it had infiltrated through infected disks.
		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.
		McAfee now estimates that only 10,000 systems were stricken worldwide on March 6, a number he says he derived by counting the number of calls he received from victims and guessing that they estimated 5 percent of the total.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~crypt/other/michey.htm (1554 words)

	Expert says: Take precautions to detect Michelangelo virus (02-27-92) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On March 6, the 517th anniversary of Michelangelo's birthday, a menacing computer virus named after the Renaissance artist is set to strike.
		White explained that Michelangelo is a boot sector virus which can reside within any properly formatted floppy disk.
		Because Michelangelo is scheduled to explode on March 6, some users think they will outwit the virus by not turning on the PC until March 7.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/92/21/15.html (618 words)

	Michelangelo Virus Hysteria Syndrome
		The Michelangelo virus hysteria displays pronounced symptoms, which makes it easy to detect.
		Any person that is not infected and has common sense can also detect the Michelangelo Virus hysteria.
		There are many trained psychologists that can detect and/or remove the Michelangelo virus hysteria.
	www.farid-hajji.net /fun/cj-michelangelo.html (442 words)

	American Journalism Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The great Michelangelo computer virus scare of 1992 has proved to be another classic example of Chicken Little journalism – or the Reporters Who Cried Wolf, depending on your taste in fairy tales.
		It was simple: On the birthday of its namesake, the virus would destroy data within the computers it had infiltrated through infected disks.
		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.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=1673 (1512 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 (701 words)

	"Michelangelo" virus source code
		This is the commented source code in assembly of the virus "Michelangelo" for MS-DOS, created in 1992 and activated every year on March, 6 (the Italian artist Michelangelo was born on March, 6 1475 in Caprese, near Arezzo).
		The ; junk bytes at the end of the file are probably throwbacks to ; the Stoned virus.
		michelangelo segment byte public assume cs:michelangelo, ds:michelangelo ; Disassembly by Dark Angel of PHALCON/SKISM org 0 jmp entervirus highmemjmp db 0F5h, 00h, 80h, 9Fh maxhead db 2 ; used by damagestuff firstsector dw 3 oldint13h dd 0C8000256h int13h: push ds push ax or dl, dl ; default drive?
	www.elfqrin.com /docs/hakref/virus_michelangelo_src.html (173 words)

	Technology Milestone: "After generating great concern in early March, the Michelangelo virus results in little actual ...
		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.
		Antivirus firms snapped to attention as the media grew fascinated with Michelangelo.
	www.ciber.com /ciber/30years/more.cfm?dataid=166&id=90 (262 words)

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