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...Michelangelo strikes today. Not Michelangelo the artist, or Michelangelo the Core class, or Michelangelo the hero in a half-shell. Michelangelo the computer virus. If your PC is infected, and you boot up today, Michelangelo will turn your hard drive to spaghetti...
...There is a potential for a virus like Michelangelo to be a very big deal indeed," said Thomas E. Cheatham, a Gordon McKay professor of computer science. (Irrelevant fact: I say "a" Gordon McKay professor and not "the" Gordon McKay professor because 12 of Harvard's 18 computer science professors are Gordon McKay professors. Gordon McKay must have been loaded...
YSTERIA? Damn straight. Infinitesimal pieces of "malicious code" are lurking within our computers, waiting to explode. We can't see them. We don't understand them. But they can make our lives hell. According to The Boston Globe's reassuring article on viruses Wednesday (soothingly titled "COMPUTER KILLERS"), Michelangelo will do to a hard drive what a high-speed frontal collision will do to a car. No wonder people were wigging out yesterday...
...user assistants" were patiently dealing with Michelangelophobia. "People know something really heavy and bad is coming," said Peter J. Bohlin, a Northeastern senior. "They just don't know how to deal with it. One woman came in totally hysterical. She was convinced that all her disks were infected with Michelangelo." Dozens of frantic PC owners have come into have their disks checked for the virus...
Next door, Michelangelo was the topic of the day among the e-mail crowd. "I'm worried about this Michelangelo virus going around," Rebecca L. Dubowy wrote to a friend at Carnegie Mellon. (Okay, so I peeked.) Dubowy told me she has received similar messages from friends at MIT, Penn and Berkeley...