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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drew the line at inviting violent, hate-mongering racists. Racists like Jeffries who say that white people should be "wipe [d]...off the face of the earth." Thugs like Jeffries who threatened to kill a Crimson reporter if he published racist and anti-Semitic comments Jeffries made and who had his bodyguards steal the reporter's tapes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inaccurate and Offensive | 4/15/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ding! Whrrrrrrrrrrrr. Crash! | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...President's friends heralded the appointment as proof that Bush's heart was in the right place. But then, on Feb. 20, Pat Buchanan signaled his intent to trash the NEA for "subsidizing filthy and blasphemous art," and Frohnmayer was gone the next day. "We had to wipe away at least one of Pat's points in advance," concedes a Bush aide. "Dumping John was craven, but it was just politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The End of Unprotected Interfacing | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

...virus-makers will always stay one step ahead of the virus-curers. They'll wipe out library records, hospital records, bank records, police records, government records, That's scary...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The End of Unprotected Interfacing | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

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