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Essentially, the Michelangelo virus overwrites the first hundred sectors of the hard disk with nulls and moves the original master boot record. This can cause a loss of information, as well as the inability to boot your operating system. It gets its name from the fact that infected computers are affected if booted up on March 6th, the birthday of the renaissance painter of the same name.

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