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   [1;33;44m                 INFORMATION ON THE MICHELANGELO VIRUS                   [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m The Michelangelo virus activates itself on March 6th, the anniversary   [0m
   [1;33;44m of Michelangelo's birth.  The Michelangelo virus is spread only by      [0m
   [1;33;44m floppy disks - not over networks or by connecting to electronic on      [0m
   [1;33;44m line services and bulletin boards.  The virus is transferred to memory  [0m
   [1;33;44m and hard disks when an attempt is made to start up (boot) your          [0m
   [1;33;44m computer from a floppy disk that is infected. The floppy does not have  [0m
   [1;33;44m to be a bootable floppy disk; it can be simply a floppy disk with data  [0m
   [1;33;44m files on it.  Once the virus is on the hard disk, it will infect every  [0m
   [1;33;44m floppy that you put in your computer, thereby creating further          [0m
   [1;33;44m infections that help it continue to spread.                             [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m On March 6th, if the machine is infected when it is started, the virus  [0m
   [1;33;44m will be activated and will begin formatting the hard disk. This will    [0m
   [1;33;44m cause all data on the hard disk to be irretrievably destroyed.          [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m The Norton AntiVirus Michelangelo Edition detects and removes the       [0m
   [1;33;44m Michelangelo virus, and will restore the hard disk partition table to   [0m
   [1;33;44m its original location.  Remember, however, that once the virus          [0m
   [1;33;44m activates, even though it can be removed after it activates, the        [0m
   [1;33;44m damage that it causes is unrecoverable.                                 [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m The 10 most common DOS viruses are:                                     [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Stoned: The most common virus. Infects hard disk partition table and    [0m
   [1;33;44m floppy diskette boot sector.                                            [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Jerusalem-B:                                                            [0m
   [1;33;44m Activates on Friday the 13th.  The second most common virus.            [0m
   [1;33;44m Strain will delete any files executed on a Friday the 13th.  Can        [0m
   [1;33;44m cause enormous amount of file growth due to multiple infections.        [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Disk Killer :                                                           [0m
   [1;33;44m Activates after 48 hours of computer usage time.  Single most           [0m
   [1;33;44m destructive MS-DOS virus. It XORs the entire hard disk and              [0m
   [1;33;44m irrevocably destroys all data.                                          [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Frodo (4096):                                                           [0m
   [1;33;44m Activates on September 22.                                              [0m
   [1;33;44m This destructive memory-resident virus uses stealth technique on        [0m
   [1;33;44m cross-link files and may even corrupt data files.  On September         [0m
   [1;33;44m 22, it activates and the system hangs.                                  [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Ping-Pong (Italian-A):                                                  [0m
   [1;33;44m An infector of boot sectors, activates on a (Ping Pong) random          [0m
   [1;33;44m basis, sending a 'pong-like' white ball bouncing around the             [0m
   [1;33;44m screen.                                                                 [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Joshi:                                                                  [0m
   [1;33;44m Activates on January 5th.  A stealth infector of floppy diskette        [0m
   [1;33;44m boot sector and hard disk partition tables. On January 5th, it          [0m
   [1;33;44m displays a message asking the user to type "Happy Birthday Joshi".      [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Michelangelo:  (see above)                                              [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Yankee Doodle:                                                          [0m
   [1;33;44m A memory-resident infector that plays "Yankee Doodle" at 5:00 PM        [0m
   [1;33;44m and increases the infected program size.                                [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Azusa:                                                                  [0m
   [1;33;44m This virus infects hard disk partition table and floppy diskette        [0m
   [1;33;44m boot sectors. It occasionally disables the LPT1 and COM1 ports. It      [0m
   [1;33;44m can also cause floppy drives to refuse to acknowledge that disks        [0m
   [1;33;44m have been swapped.                                                      [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m Dark Avenger:                                                           [0m
   [1;33;44m Infects .COM, .EXE and .SYS files.  After every 16th file has been      [0m
   [1;33;44m infected, the virus overwrites a random sector of the hard disk         [0m
   [1;33;44m destroying programs and data files in that sector.                      [0m
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   [1;33;44m This information is from the read.me file of The Norton AntiVirus       [0m
   [1;33;44m Michelangelo Edition by Symantec Corporation - Peter Norton Group.      [0m
   [1;33;44m                                                                         [0m
   [1;33;44m For recorded answers to frequently asked technical questions about      [0m
   [1;33;44m this free software and for additional information on the Michelangelo   [0m
   [1;33;44m virus, phone the Symantec Virus Newsline at 1-310-828-2906.             [0m
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