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Michelangelo

 
Threat LevelModerate threatDamageHighDistributionNot widespread
Common name:Michelangelo
Technical name:Michelangelo
Threat level:Low
Alias:Michelangelo.A,
Type:Virus
Effects:  It infects the boot sector of floppy disks and hard disks. On March 6, it deletes information from the hard disk. It prevents the computer from starting up correctly.

Affected platforms:

MS-DOS

Detection updated on:July 10, 2008
StatisticsNo
Country of origin:SWEDEN
Family:STONED

Brief Description 

    

Michelangelo is a boot virus that infects the boot sector of floppy disks and of hard disks.

Michelangelo has a very destructive payload, as on March 6th, it deletes information from the hard disk, thus making it irretrievable.

Michelangelo infects the hard disk of a computer when it is booted from a floppy disk that is infected with this virus. From then on, all of the floppy disks used on that computer will be infected and it will have problems starting up.

Visible Symptoms 

    

The main visible symptom is that infected computers have problems starting from March 6th.

In addition, information from the hard disk is lost.

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