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...Michelangelo is just one of 3000 viruses sniffed out by American hackers since 1982. (Didn't a certain medical epidemic start around that time?) Some of them--like the Kennedy virus, which leaves innocent messages on the screens of infected users on every anniversary of the deaths of JFK, RFK and Joseph Kennedy--are harmless. Others--like "Joshi", "which wreaked havoc upon Harvard's Office of Physical Resources--have serious attitude problems. Other viruses--Yankee Doodle, Blackjack, Dukakis, to name a few--have yet to reveal their destructive power. (For my money, Dukakis won't do anything...
...some of us have learned from that other epidemic, education and early detection are the keys to limiting a virus's spread. This time, everything worked great. Somehow, the computer community found out that Michelangelo was going to blow on March 6. Somehow, the media decided that this impending explosion was an interesting story...
...pour your money into software that can wipe out existing viruses. And these programs are updated as new viruses rear their ugly heads. (Probable creator of Michelangelo: McAfee Associates, the first software company to create and anti-Michelangelo program. Probable evil genius behind McAfee Associates: Gordon McKay...
...MICHELANGELO is so scary precisely because most of us understand it so poorly. I mean, how does "code" spread? And if this "code" is so "malicious," why did it wait until Michelangelo's birthday to annihilate your "thesis"? How did anyone find out about Michelangelo? Will Donatello obliterate our files next month...
Beats me. All I know is this: I have journeyed to the basement of the Science Center for the first time since I took the QRR in September 1988. I have seen the Michelangelo hysteria...