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Article: Michelangelo's birthday promotes awareness of computer viruses.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 5, 1996
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March 6 has become a sort of red-letter day for companies that produce anti-virus computer software.
Once it was known merely as the anniversary of the birth of the Italian artist Michelangelo. But for the past four years, it has also been the date the Michelangelo computer virus has reactivated.
Computer viruses are mostly an annoying footnote in the recent history of personal computing. Unless you do a lot of disk swapping or downloading from Internet sources, you're probably pretty safe.
But the problem goes way beyond annoying when a virus brings your machine to its knees. In the case of Michelangelo, which may strike infected computers again ...