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Does anyone remember...

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Name: KaioShin
Date: August 6, 2002 at 08:27:27 Pacific
Subject: Does anyone remember...
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...the Michaelangelo brand of viruses? I remember one of them hit my pc, and sure enough, there goes the hard drive, *THPPPTT*


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Response Number 1
Name: Andi
Date: August 6, 2002 at 09:01:09 Pacific
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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).



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Response Number 2
Name: KaioShin
Date: August 6, 2002 at 09:35:54 Pacific
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Whoo! That was a little too much. Could this thread be for the victims of Michaelangelo?


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Response Number 3
Name: Andi
Date: August 6, 2002 at 10:19:51 Pacific
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No


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Response Number 4
Name: DBPowerWCRulez
Date: August 6, 2002 at 21:32:08 Pacific
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Oh yea, I remmy that michealanglo virus hits on my old s--t XT system (8088 proccy), virus scanner removed the virus and still there nothing removed grrr, then I went to puter shop to fix the virus outta of my hard drive, they reformatted my hard drive and virus STILL there, they try to /MBR to kill a virus off, nothing work, then the hard drive totally fk'd up, warranty still good to replace a FREE hard drive. it's very OLD 40 MB MFM hard drive!


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