Michaelangelo Virus
McAfee tells journalists that a virus dubbed “Michelangelo,” which completely wipes the hard drive of infected computers, will be activated on as many as five million PCs. His declaration causes a near-panic in the computer-using world. But by March 7, nothing has happened. He is blamed for creating a false threat to sell more of his anti-virus software. Sales reportedly “skyrocket” with more than half of the companies in the Fortune 100 having purchased McAfee software.
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I stumbled onto McAfee when my brother-in-law showed me a newspaper article about a computer virus, one of the first computer viruses actually, I just was rocked by the whole thing, I remember reading the story and being fascinated by the technology and at the same time, my mind was already working on how to solve it. So I sat down and wrote a program and put what I had made on my bulletin board.