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Tag: boot sector virus

  • Throwback Thursday: Michelangelo – Graffiti Not Art

    This week marked the 25th anniversary of the Michelangelo virus. The boot sector virus was designed to trigger on 6 March 1992, on which date it would override all of the data on the infected machine’s hard drive. The Michelangelo virus – which was so named by researchers for the fact that 6 March was also the…

  • Throwback Thursday: Michelangelo – Graffiti Not Art

    This week marked the 25th anniversary of the Michelangelo virus. The boot sector virus was designed to trigger on 6 March 1992, on which date it would override all of the data on the infected machine’s hard drive. The Michelangelo virus – which was so named by researchers for the fact that 6 March was also the…

  • Throwback Thursday: Peter-II – Three Questions of The Sphinx

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1993, when an ordinary memory-resident master boot sector virus spiced things up with a bit of pop trivia. Over recent years we have become used to hearing about ransomware extorting money from victims by locking up their devices and demanding a ransom in order for access to the…

  • Boot virus shipped on German laptops

    Aged malware installed on batch of Vista systems. A consignment of laptops from German manufacturer Medion , sold through German and Danish branches of giant retail chain Aldi , have been found to be infected with the boot sector virus ‘Stoned.Angelina’, first seen as long ago as 1994 and last included on the official WildList…