[COFF] Happy birthday, Michelangelo virus!

[Arthur Krewat]

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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