Michelangelo

MS-DOS

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 6^th, 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.

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

In addition, information from the hard disk is lost.