What computer virus of the mid 1990s was named after an Italian artist?
"Michelangelo (computer virus) The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, basically operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the virus remained dormant until March 6, the birthday of Renaissance artist Michelangelo. There is no reference to the artist in the virus, and it is doubtful that the virus writer intended Michelangelo to be referenced to the virus. The name was chosen by researchers who noticed the"
"print server, infected with the virus. Although the infected machines numbered only in the hundreds, the resulting publicity spiraled into ""expert"" claims, partially led by anti-virus company founder John McAfee, of thousands or even millions of computers infected by Michelangelo. However, on March 6, 1992, only 10,000 to 20,000 cases of data loss were reported. In subsequent years, users were advised not to run PCs on March 6, waiting until March 7, or else reset the PC date to March 7 at some time on March 5 (to skip March 6). Eventually, the news media lost interest, and the virus"
"appear. Ping-Pong virus The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the ""Politecnico di Torino"" (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy. It was likely the most common and best known boot sector virus until outnumbered by the Stoned virus. Computers could be contaminated by an infected diskette, showing up as a 1 KB bad cluster (the last one on the disk, used by the virus to store the original boot sector) to most disk checking programs. Due to being labelled as bad cluster, MS-DOS"
"of the variations had to do with what file extensions were affected by the virus. Others simply modified the email subject in order to make it targeted towards a specific audience, like variant ""Catolina"" in Italian, or variant ""BabyPic"" for adults. Some others only modified the credits to the author, which were originally included in the standard version of the virus, removing them completely or referencing false authors. Some mail messages sent by ILOVEYOU: On 5 May 2000, two young Filipino computer programmers named Reonel Ramones and Onel de Guzman became targets of a criminal investigation by agents of the"
"Ping-Pong virus The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the ""Politecnico di Torino"" (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy. It was likely the most common and best known boot sector virus until outnumbered by the Stoned virus. Computers could be contaminated by an infected diskette, showing up as a 1 KB bad cluster (the last one on the disk, used by the virus to store the original boot sector) to most disk checking programs. Due to being labelled as bad cluster, MS-DOS will"
"Natas (computer virus) Natas (Satan spelled backwards) is a computer virus written by James Gentile, a then-18-year-old hacker from San Diego, California who went by the alias of ""Little Loc"" and later ""Priest"". The virus was made for a Mexican politician who wanted to win the Mexican elections by affecting all the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) computers with a floppy disk. Natas is a memory-resident stealth virus and is highly polymorphic, that affects master boot records, boot sectors of diskettes, files .COM and also .exe programs. The virus first appeared in Mexico City in May 1992, spread by a"
"Cascade (computer virus) The Cascade virus (also known as ""Herbstlaub"" in Germany) is a prominent computer virus that was a resident written in assembly language, that was widespread in the 1980s and early 1990s. It infected .COM files and had the effect of making text on the screen cascade down and form a heap at the bottom of the screen. It was notable for using an encryption algorithm to avoid being detected. However, one could see that infected files had their size increased by 1701 or 1704 bytes. In response, IBM developed its own antivirus software. The virus has a"
"coincidence of the activation date. The actual significance of the date to the author is unknown. Michelangelo is a variant of the already endemic Stoned virus. On March 6, if the PC is an AT or a PS/2, the virus overwrites the first one hundred sectors of the hard disk with nulls. The virus assumes a geometry of 256 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track. Although all the user's data would still be on the hard disk, it would be irretrievable for the average user. On hard disks, the virus moves the original master boot record to cylinder 0,"
"real virus they identify as ""Good Times,"" though this will not be the cause of the original scare. Weird Al Yankovic made a song parody of the virus titled ""Virus Alert"". Goodtimes virus The Goodtimes Virus was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity. Warnings about a computer virus named ""Good Times"" began being passed around among Internet users in 1994. The Goodtimes virus was supposedly transmitted via an email bearing the subject header ""Good Times"" or ""Goodtimes,"" hence the virus's name, and the warning recommended deleting any such email unread. The virus"
"Nirvana (film) Nirvana is a 1997 Italian cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. The film stars Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, and Stefania Rocca. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of a virtual reality game designer, Jimi (Christopher Lambert), who discovers that the main character of his game, Solo (Diego Abatantuono), has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation (who feels everything the character in the game feels, including multiple deaths) to eliminate its existence, Jimi sets out to"
"Simone Bianchi (artist) Simone Bianchi (born July 10, 1972) is an Italian comic book illustrator, painter, graphic designer and art instructor, known to Italian audiences for his work in comics, CD covers, music videos, TV commercials and role-playing games. His most popular Italian comics is (unfinished) trilogy ""Ego Sum"". To American comic book readers, he is best known for his work on comics such as ""Detective Comics"", ""Green Lantern"" and ""Wolverine"". Bianchi’s style is distinguished by his use of ink wash, or watercolor halftones, in rendering his work, a non-traditional technique by mainstream American standards. Simone Bianchi was born July"
"4K (computer virus) 4k is a computer virus which infects COM files and EXE files. The virus was one of the first to employ stealth tactics. Infected systems will hang, after September 22 every year, which is also the date of birth Bilbo Baggins, a character from ""The Lord of the Rings"". The code was intended to display the message ""Frodo Lives"", but hangs in all known variants. This virus was spread without the aid of the Internet. It was ported between systems by floppy disks. It first appeared in October 1989. The first U.S. specimen was contracted in Dallas,"
"piracy of the Beach Head name in China has ended. In 2017, Pepe announced he started working on the successor of BeachHead: BeachHead 2020 VR. Pepe Moreno Pepe Moreno (born 1959, given name: Saturnino) is a Spanish comic book artist, writer and video game developer who has been drawing professionally in Spain, other countries in Europe and in the US since the 1970s. He is best known in the United States for his 1990 digital graphic novel, """", published by DC Comics. Pepe Moreno also has a video game background. In 1994, he created the computer game, ""Hell Cab"", for"
"Anna Kournikova (computer virus) Anna Kournikova (named by its author as ""Vbs.OnTheFly Created By OnTheFly"") was a computer worm written by a 20-year-old Dutch student named Jan de Wit --who called himself 'OnTheFly'-- on February 11, 2001. It was designed to trick email users into opening a mail message purportedly containing a picture of the tennis player Anna Kournikova, while actually hiding a malicious program. The worm arrives in an email with the subject line ""Here you have, ;0)"" and an attached file called AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs. When launched under Microsoft Windows the file does not display a picture of Anna Kournikova"
"consultant using infected floppy disks. The virus became widespread in Mexico and the southwest United States. The virus also made its way to the other side of the USA, infecting computers at the United States Secret Service knocking their network offline for approximately three days. This led to an investigation of Priest and incorrect suspicion that the virus specifically targeted government computers. Natas also infected computers in Canada, England, Russian Federation and Brazil. Natas (computer virus) Natas (Satan spelled backwards) is a computer virus written by James Gentile, a then-18-year-old hacker from San Diego, California who went by the alias"
"SOLANO 2000 Solano 2000 is a computer virus that was discovered at Solano Community College in the city of Fairfield, California, in March 1990. It is a standard variant of the Dyslexia virus family and is named after Solano County, California, in which Fairfield is located. It was also isolated, and subsequently analyzed, in San Pablo in adjacent Contra Costa County. The ""2000"" portion indicates the number of bytes in the virus code. At this time, Solano 2000 is considered to be an obsolete virus. Solano 2000 is a standard DOS file infector. It infects .COM files and is memory"
"the virus and this would aid in the spread. 4K (computer virus) 4k is a computer virus which infects COM files and EXE files. The virus was one of the first to employ stealth tactics. Infected systems will hang, after September 22 every year, which is also the date of birth Bilbo Baggins, a character from ""The Lord of the Rings"". The code was intended to display the message ""Frodo Lives"", but hangs in all known variants. This virus was spread without the aid of the Internet. It was ported between systems by floppy disks. It first appeared in October"
"SCA (computer virus) The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus. It features a line of text that appears at every 15th copy after a warm reboot: Something wonderful has happened Your AMIGA is alive !!! and, even better... Some of your disks are infected by a VIRUS !!! Another masterpiece of The Mega-Mighty SCA !! ""SCA"" is an acronym for the Swiss Cracking Association, a group engaged in software protection removal, so"
"Silvio Cesare Silvio Cesare ( ) is an Australian security researcher known for his multiple articles in phrack, talks at numerous security conferences including Defcon and Black Hat Briefings. Silvio is also a former member of w00w00. He is credited with the publication of the first ELF virus for UNIX-like operating systems. His security research includes an IDS evasion bug in the widely deployed Snort software. Silvio holds a PhD in Computer Science from Deakin University and is the cofounder of the security conference BSides Canberra. He earned his Master of Informatics and Bachelor of Information Technology from CQUniversity Australia."
"KoKo (computer virus) KoKo Virus is a memory resident computer virus created in March 1991. KoKo's name came from the creator himself, which was a nickname used by his friends. Many on-line virus databases refer to KoKo as ""Koko.1780"". KoKo is written in the Assembly programming language and the executable file usually has an approximate file size of around 1780 bytes. The KoKo virus infects the target system by hooking the Windows interrupt INT 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed. The payload of this virus activates on July 29 and February"
"or opening a rift in time and space. Another parody of virus hoaxes is the ""honor system virus"" which has been circulated under the name Amish Computer Virus, manual virus, the Blond Computer Virus, the Irish Computer Virus, the Syrian Computer Virus, the Norwegian Computer Virus, Albanian Virus, Newfie Virus, the Unix Computer Virus, the Mac OS 9 virus, Discount virus and many others. This joke email claims to be authored by the Amish or other similar low-technology populations who have no computers, programming skills or electricity to create viruses and thus ask you to delete your own hard drive"
"Ambulance (computer virus) Ambulance or Ambulance Car is a computer virus that infected computers running a DOS operating system in June 1990. It was discovered in Germany. Ambulance does not become memory resident. It infects only one .COM file in any given directory, but not the first one. Thus, there must be at least two .COM files in a directory for it to spread. When an infected file is executed, an ASCII art ambulance can be seen moving across the screen, a siren starts to sound, and it displays an alert message such as: BOOM! It is not a deliberately"
"on August 2 instead of April 26. CIH (computer virus) CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows 9x computer virus which first emerged in 1998. Its payload is highly destructive to vulnerable systems, overwriting critical information on infected system drives, and in some cases destroying the system BIOS. The virus was created by Chen Ing-hau (陳盈豪, pinyin: ""Chén Yíngháo"") who was a student at Tatung University in Taiwan. Now he is the chief executive officer, and founder of 8tory. Sixty million computers were believed to be infected by the virus internationally, resulting in an estimated US$1"
"symptoms listed above. SOLANO 2000 Solano 2000 is a computer virus that was discovered at Solano Community College in the city of Fairfield, California, in March 1990. It is a standard variant of the Dyslexia virus family and is named after Solano County, California, in which Fairfield is located. It was also isolated, and subsequently analyzed, in San Pablo in adjacent Contra Costa County. The ""2000"" portion indicates the number of bytes in the virus code. At this time, Solano 2000 is considered to be an obsolete virus. Solano 2000 is a standard DOS file infector. It infects .COM files"
"Ettore Perazzoli Ettore Perazzoli (June 15, 1974 - December 10, 2003) was an Italian free software developer. Born in Milan, Italy, he studied Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university. He wrote a port of x64, a Commodore 64 emulator for Unix, to DOS, thus turning it into a cross-platform emulator, which was renamed to VICE. He has been a maintainer of VICE for many years, and started the Microsoft Windows port, which is now the most popular version of VICE. He then started contributing to GNOME, a Linux desktop environment. He helped in writing GtkHTML, Nautilus and Evolution. Close"
"MacMag The MacMag virus, also known by various other names, was a computer virus introduced in 1988 by Richard Brandow, who at the time was editor and publisher of MacMag computer magazine in Montréal. The virus infected Macintosh computers, and the intention was that on 2 March 1988 all infected computers would show the message ""RICHARD BRANDOW, publisher of MacMag, and its entire staff would like to take this opportunity to convey their UNIVERSAL MESSAGE OF PEACE to all Macintosh users around the world"", and the virus would then delete itself. According to the virus itself, it was written by"
"Form (computer virus) Form was a boot sector virus isolated in Switzerland in the summer of 1990 which became very common worldwide. The origin of Form is widely listed as Switzerland, but this may be an assumption based on its isolation locale. The only notable characteristics of Form are that it infects the boot sector instead of the Master Boot Record (MBR) and the clicking noises associated with some infections. Infections under Form can result in severe data damage if operating system characteristics are not identical to those Form assumes. It is notable for arguably being the most common virus"
"destructive virus; it simply spreads itself around and shows off its payload once in a while. These are just some of many variants detected: Ambulance (computer virus) Ambulance or Ambulance Car is a computer virus that infected computers running a DOS operating system in June 1990. It was discovered in Germany. Ambulance does not become memory resident. It infects only one .COM file in any given directory, but not the first one. Thus, there must be at least two .COM files in a directory for it to spread. When an infected file is executed, an ASCII art ambulance can be"
"of the methods used to entice victims to infection-hosting web sites are offers of free music, for artists such as Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Clarkson, Rihanna, The Eagles, Foo Fighters, R. Kelly, and Velvet Revolver. Signature-based detection, the main defense of most computer systems against virus and malware infections, is hampered by the large number of Storm variants. Back-end servers that control the spread of the botnet and Storm worm automatically re-encode their distributed infection software twice an hour, for new transmissions, making it difficult for anti-virus vendors to stop the virus and infection spread. Additionally, the location of the remote"
"work on ""Ego Sum"". Simone Bianchi (artist) Simone Bianchi (born July 10, 1972) is an Italian comic book illustrator, painter, graphic designer and art instructor, known to Italian audiences for his work in comics, CD covers, music videos, TV commercials and role-playing games. His most popular Italian comics is (unfinished) trilogy ""Ego Sum"". To American comic book readers, he is best known for his work on comics such as ""Detective Comics"", ""Green Lantern"" and ""Wolverine"". Bianchi’s style is distinguished by his use of ink wash, or watercolor halftones, in rendering his work, a non-traditional technique by mainstream American standards. Simone"
"Clinton Haines Clinton 'Clint' Haines (10 April 1976 – 10 April 1997 in St Lucia, Queensland, Australia) was an Australian computer hacker. He was also known as Harry McBungus, TaLoN and Terminator-Z. Haines attended Ipswich Grammar School. He wrote his first computer virus in assembly language using the A86 assembler in the early 1990s. Haines was responsible for the viruses NoFrills, Dudley, X-Fungus/PuKE, Daemaen and 1984. NoFrills infected the Australian Tax Office (ATO). It was described by anti-virus company manager Len Grooves as ""totally unimpressive"". Grooves added: ""This is a very average virus...It could have been written by any first-year"
"Beast (street artist) Beast is an Italian anonymous contemporary street artist from Milan. Beast is the pseudonym for an anonymous Milan-based street artist who has been active on the streets of Europe and United States since 2009, with a focus on stencils at first and later at creating digital collages aiming to highlight political and social issues. Beast created public artworks that portray well-known political figures including Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Marine Le Pen, Matteo Renzi, Silvio Berlusconi, Matteo Salvini and Mario Draghi. Beast uses photo manipulation technique to create his works as well as wheat pasting and billboard hijacking"
"Dark Avenger Dark Avenger was a pseudonym of a computer virus writer from Sofia, Bulgaria. He gained considerable popularity during the early 1990s, as some of his viruses spread not only nationwide but across Europe as well, even reaching the United States and Australia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, personal computers in Bulgaria were relatively rare, with only the wealthiest citizens able to afford one. Nevertheless, Bulgaria had a blooming computer hardware industry, which specialised in providing large numbers of PCs for educational purposes. Thus, many schools and universities were provided with computers, and informatics was a commonly"