Word: michelangelo
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...Burbank headquarters, getting ready to tackle El Moldo. It is noon on Wednesday, and they have already had their morning phone conversation with Carson about tonight's show (he has asked for a few more jokes about Ed McMahon's recent wedding and some on the Michelangelo computer virus), and they have finished a draft of the opening monologue. Theirs is one of six full-length monologues prepared by the show's eight staff writers (including two writing pairs) that Carson will get when he arrives at the office between 2 and 3 p.m. From this bounty, Carson will pick...
...computer world experienced that feeling of letdown that comes when a well-publicized hurricane fails to hit, nobody could blame the object at the center of the storm -- the tiny computer program called Michelangelo. Like all other computer viruses, it was designed to hide within a computer's instructions and spread to other systems by copying itself over and over. But while most computer viruses do benign things -- such as whistle Yankee Doodle -- Michelangelo is pernicious. It was programmed to wipe out all the data in any infected IBM-compatible personal computer on March 6, Michelangelo's birthday...
...creates these things? A disproportionate number seem to originate in Bulgaria or Russia, where writing the smallest, most elegant virus programs has become a matter of quirky pride. But Michelangelo was first discovered just over a year ago on the other side of the world, in Australia, among some Taiwanese floppy disks. The virus drew special attention in the U.S. after several shipments of commercial software became infected...
...most to gain: the folks who make their living providing protection against virus attacks. Central Point Software in Beaverton, Ore., for example, reported that sales of its $129 antiviral program jumped 700% in one month. Central Point gave away thousands of copies of another, smaller program designed to destroy Michelangelo and a second virus set to strike this week, on Friday the 13th. But included in that freebie was a clever marketing tool for the company's full-powered program: a list of 1,007 other viruses that could still be lurking in the soul of your machine...
When he isn't fielding calls to his 800 line, Jerry Brown communicates with potential voters on-line, thanks to his new CompuServe computer link. Hmm . . . are the Michelangelo and Friday the 13th viruses political plots...