What is the michelangelo virus?

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What is the michelangelo virus?antivirus scan

The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered in April 1991 in New Zealand.[1] The virus was designed to infect MS-DOS systems (but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls, Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses is basically operating at the BIOS level) and remain 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. A more likely scenario is that the virus was a gaffe against the (at the time) better known Jerusalem B (Friday the 13th)virus. Since this attack took place exactly one week before Friday, March 13th, 1992--computer users who believed that they could avoid Jerusalem by changing the system date (on the twelfth) would be ensnared. Michelangelo is clearly 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 all but irretrievable for the average user.

On hard disks, the virus moves the original master boot record to cylinder 0, head 0, sector 7.