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...CHERNOBYL VIRUS HAS BEEN DESTROYING HARD DRIVES FOR 14,460 MINUTES...
Last Sunday, the computer virus Chernobyl disabled the hard drives of computers across the Campus, preventing access to everything from theses to lowly expos papers. Those who lacked sufficient protection in the form of anti-viral programs had to suffer both the loss of countless hours as they attempted to restore their papers and the supercilious comments of their peers. The number of students who do, indeed, back up every assignment they have on a disk is quite small. Harvard students prize efficiency, and so due to the rarity of complete computer failure, not many expend the effort required...
...aftermath of the Chernobyl virus has trashed students' papers and minds for 4,752 minutes...
...came home from class Monday to find that the Chernobyl virus had struck--his thesis was gone...
Delbanco, who said he thinks his method couldbe applicable to other Chernobyl-struck computers,put the hard drive into a working computer anddownloaded the files in order to recover the datathat had been lost...