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Unauthorised Access UK 0636-708063 10pm-7am 12oo/24oo
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MAYHEM AT FIRMS PLAGUED BY VIRUS
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By Philip Braund
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Published in The Mirror newspaper
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March 7th 1992
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Transcribed for the H/P world by Phantasm
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Call Unauthorised Access +44-636-708063
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Online 10pm-7am UK time
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DATA was whiped from thousands of computers as
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the Michelangelo virus finally struck yesterday.
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At least 16 British firms were hit by the
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electronic bug and experts reckoned it affected
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10,000 systems throughout the world.
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Staff at a business in London watched in horror
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at 100 screens went blank. British expert Edward
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Wilding said: "I've never known such a serious
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loss of data due to a virus."
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Files also disappeared in more than 1,000
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computers in 500 South African companies. But
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generally the damage was less than predicted
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because firms made copies of their data or used
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special programs to destroy the virus.
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Devised by a mischievous boffin and spread by
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"infected" floppy disks, it was triggered as
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computers clocks ticked into the 517th
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anniversary of Italian artist Michelangelo's
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birthday.
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Happy birthday Michelangelo...
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