From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Michelangelo virus!
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:29:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e433bf6a-f34c-0d66-4f9e-222795aad4d0@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1903061030390.50700@aneurin.horsfall.org>
I met up with that virus because a friend caught it from somewhere and I
looked into it for him. Luckily he had done what I told him to do and
that was to keep multiple backups. I was actually able to restore the
hard drive intact, as it only deleted the beginning 100 sectors (thanks
wikipedia).
I immediately told a bunch of people I knew, and Eric G Corley who I
also knew invited me to speak on his radio program "Off the Wall" on
WUSB-FM. I was unable to make it because of prior commitments.
From there on, there were a few variants of the idea.
It taught me, and a lot of other people, not to boot from floppies that
were not supposed to be booted from.
I think shortly after that, I wrote a boot sector scanner that would
scan the floppies when they were first inserted.
art k.
On 3/5/2019 6:34 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Commemorating Michelangelo's birthday in 1457, this was the scourge of
> DOS-box users everywhere in 1992 (I was still using CP/M at the time
> before upgrading to Unix).
>
> -- Dave
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2019-03-05 23:34 dave
2019-03-06 0:29 ` krewat [this message]
2019-03-06 2:14 rudi.j.blom
2019-03-06 3:52 ` dave
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