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MAYHEM AT FIRMS PLAGUED BY VIRUS
By Philip Braund
Published in The Mirror newspaper
March 7th 1992
Transcribed for the H/P world by Phantasm
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DATA was whiped from thousands of computers as
the Michelangelo virus finally struck yesterday.
At least 16 British firms were hit by the
electronic bug and experts reckoned it affected
10,000 systems throughout the world.
Staff at a business in London watched in horror
at 100 screens went blank. British expert Edward
Wilding said: "I've never known such a serious
loss of data due to a virus."
Files also disappeared in more than 1,000
computers in 500 South African companies. But
generally the damage was less than predicted
because firms made copies of their data or used
special programs to destroy the virus.
Devised by a mischievous boffin and spread by
"infected" floppy disks, it was triggered as
computers clocks ticked into the 517th
anniversary of Italian artist Michelangelo's
birthday.
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Happy birthday Michelangelo...