Just how a virus works.Just like personal computer users all over the world, Greg Buckley heard the warnings within the dreaded Michelangelo "virus, " a malicious software package designed to wipe out the contents of your infected PC's hard disk on March 6, the artist's birthday.
But in contrast to most, Buckley, a plumbing contractor contractor in Boynton Beach front, Fla, was a prey. He turned on his PC that fateful Friday to get all of his accounting data gone. But if 2009 was 4 seasons Michelangelo pushed computer viruses into the spotlight, 1993 may be the year viruses go under protect. A new generation with highly sophisticated "stealth" infections has begun circulating amid PCs, spreading with little if any evidence of their existence.