Virus.DOS.Michelangelo (25 years later)

[@Lewis-sj3gd]

The famous words of danooct1 "this virus is known for its destructive capabilities, so let's go ahead and run it."

[@Architector_4]

+Chopto tru

[@7Marx7]

This quote should be on Danooct1's grave one day.

[@Kippykip]

HYDRALIC PREF CHANAL

[@midforsale]

LOL😂😂😂

[@Lewis-sj3gd]

7Marx7 true

[@VleerLab]

The German language news report said "The Michelangelo virus is more harmless than what was feared" It's not quite as dramatic as the other reports :P

[@bepowerification]

yeah, back then this whole overdramatic sensational style didnt take over german news yet.

[@enderdavid_hdde348]

Die Tagesschau hat sich so extrem verendet... ne🤣🤣🤣

[@unnamedyoutuber5649]

@@enderdavid_hdde348 Ja ist halt so😂😂

[@daemonspudguy]

@@bepowerification the German language itself is a dramatic language and lovely as a result

[@gwivongalois6169]

@@enderdavid_hdde348 Das ist Christiane Gerboth in den Pro7 Nachrichten.

[@YF501]

boot sector infector thats a fun string of words to say

[@malpeko]

boot insector fector

[@itsthesola10]

that could be part of a rap! I'm a money burner A data destructor A boot sector infector Yeah the Michelangelo

[@Treemindr]

You know what... Someone should make a song like that!

[@Architector_4]

If I will not forget, I would try to make a song like that tomorrow... And if I will not result in a bad song... No promises, but maybe Treemindr will get his wish done. :v

[@Architector_4]

+Chopto My left hand gets tired already ._.

[@deltacell4298]

the boot up sound... music to my ears...

[@deltacell4298]

you are right.

[@goaway4443]

it passed gas lololol hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahaahhaahim so immature

[@deltacell4298]

wat

[@plasmodius9449]

Msk2PL wat

[@deltacell4298]

wat

[@nickp.4915]

My computer had the Michaelangelo virus back in the day. I recall installing a virus scanner (McAfee) at 15 minutes til midnight on the evening of March 5th to scan just to be sure I was not infected. I was surprised to find out my PC was in fact infected. Lucky I scanned when I did. I set my clock back a few weeks and then started the cleanup. Cleaned it from the HD and then started scanning my floppies. I had well over 100 floppies that were infected. It became obvious how I became infected while scanning all my floppies. I attended the WCRA hamfest (amateur radio & computer show) a little more than a month earlier, end of January, at "The Odeum Expo Center" (a local venue in the Chicago burbs) and bought a bunch of floppies with different shareware software on them from a particular vendor. While scanning all of my floppies I discovered nearly 80% of the floppies I bought from that vendor were infected and that also turned out to be about two thirds of my total infected floppies. I did keep a well marked infected floppy laying around, afterward and several months later intentionally infected a system with it. I seem to recall though that after the machine was infected yet prior to the trigger date all you had to do to infect additional floppies was to access them in the floppy drive in any way, even something as simple as pulling up the file directory was enough to infect any floppies you put into the computer. I had quite a bit of fun just messing around with Michaelangelo to see what happened, and when I did intentionally trigger the virus it did it's thing without fail. Fun memories :)

[@darkjanggo]

thanks for sharing!

[@lemon_n3ko]

Michael ANgeLO

[@hgbugalou]

The Michelangelo / Friday the 13th virus is what got me into computers in 9th grade. Prior to this I had little experience with computers. In a word processing class I took, I was messing around with some DOS commands I learned from a book my mother had. I came across the msav.exe program (Microsoft Antivirus!) and ran it. It found my computer was infected with Michelangelo. I checked my buddies computer next to me and it had Friday the 13th (which is a Michelangelo variant). I started to look everywhere else and it was running rampant across all the computers. I warned the teacher and the class that all of the computers would be screwed up the next Friday the 13th. The day came and all the computers were wiped out. That day forward the teacher thought I was a computer genius and I became his tech fixing his machines. I didn't have to do any of the word processing work, and I still got an A for that class. That said, I probably learned a lot more than anyone else while working on those computers for that year and I continued learning after that class. I have been working in IT for the past 15 years now.

[@ZRZK2127]

awesome story.

[@AlchemiconSilver]

Michael O Michael Aelo Michael Agelo Michael Angelo Michaelangelo Nice name joke, no matter how long I had to stretch it out for.

[@L7vanmatre]

Heh, that story could've ended worse with the teacher thinking you infected the PCs. Good thing it didn't though! Really nice story!

[@luisgonzalez5482]

Did everyone clap?

[@greta3340]

I knew this was gonna be an r/thathappened when i was not even halfway through 😂

[@Xamp1256]

I like how the german news clip is about how the virus only infected a few thousand PCs, while the others make it out to be a huge deal. Although i'm not sure about that other non-english clip.

[@wi_zeus6798]

Max Imp Well it was aired out after the virus activated.

[@kohul_sol5105]

Max Imp Its Portuguese. I can translate it for you

[@kohul_sol5105]

She just says: "Michelangelo is a virus that on a date, deletes all files on the boot disk"

[@KaidenMikami]

She just says what michelangelo technically do, wipe out all your files.

[@Architector_4]

+Chopto Come on, y u do dis 2 me :c

[@EarlFaulk]

Still remember the paranoia about this virus. Heck, years later when I was a teenager someone told me that he still keeps his pc turned off during Michelangelo's birthday. Nowadays, I would roll my eyes if someone told me that.

[@jatsefos]

@@potato_x69 A child, I'd say

[@virushunter83]

Michelangelo was what got me interested in viruses. My school got its first computers around the time the media hype over it reached its peak. My father was wary of disks I brought home from school and when he said why, I was instantly determined to catch it. It was about 10 years later that I actually did, and today I have a zoo of viruses.

[@ukelelepichu]

Congrats!!

[@mrcameraflyguy]

that intro was really cool tbh

[@blackice1029]

Applecooler agreed, crazy how hyped this was

[@prizedcoffeecup]

I remember somebody trying to tell me this virus was still around on a website and could really mess up your computer...then I found out that this virus was for DOS and that they hadn't used a computer since the 5th generation DOS operating systems.

[@prizedcoffeecup]

The fucking ending though...hahahaha

[@Toxoid49b]

How would I describe danooct1? "He makes computer malware demonstration videos showcasing the mayhem of older malware common during the early ages of computing. He also reviews malware submitted to him by his viewers, created with the intention of causing as much digital mayhem as possible. He has the ability to explain complicated computing concepts in a simple and accessible way, and also has managed to stay original and fresh despite creating videos for almost 8 years. He also has a very seductive voice."

[@natalieobman5018]

"Hella fast typer"

[@_chirp_6108]

Toxoid49b "This virus is known for its destructive capabilities, so let's go ahead and run it."

[@Etiblack01]

Very on point.

[@vincentsutton9916]

Toxoid49b i describe him as a malware researcher

[@kaynstoopid448]

he does videos of viruses on general, not only of the past, but of the present too.

[@raydeen2k]

I remember when the DaVinci worm almost sunk that oil tanker. Thank goodness a bunch of intrepid hackers managed to stop it in time.

[@lajenehuen260]

Hack the planet!

[@rivet6403]

My dad in College had a mac where he collected viruses on floppies since they couldn't really hurt it, and he called it his virus zoo. Apparently he even found one that would have hurt his mac! If I remember right, he had this one as well.

[@fingolfirn8189]

I remember a movie like that. 🤔

[@AzureXXX]

Oh bloody hell ninja turtles on my dos

[@aleksandrapljonkina3848]

+1863 | Minecraft there are other michelangelos

[@videotoblin]

@@aleksandrapljonkina3848 wooosh

[@lunainthewoods]

Azure oh bloody hell theyre everywhere

[@bekindtotheonesthatyoulove4894]

Lol

[@pcsecuritychannel]

Wow. I wasn't even born when this one went off. Where do you get this stuff?

[@chessemchesse3676]

Well you aint so old You are young kiddo

[@theoofingboi614]

ayy its ma boi

[@supercool1312]

thieves. youre over 25, thats when you start dying because your cells die more than they are replaced. so you, are in fact, old

[@Fiilis1]

Aww noob amongst us 😍

[@peachymunmagenta]

Damn, I’m not even 20-

[@pvc988]

If it just erases boot sector and FAT then data recovery companies should be able to recover the data (on physical level or by doing statistical file reassembly, cluster by cluster). It would cost some money but it's not the end of the world.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

Well, remember this came about in the '90s, back when computers were scary devil-magic boxes that only a select few really understood the true nature of. Data recovery services were very uncommon and the ones that did exist were prohibitively expensive for all but the biggest megacorporations and government agencies.

[@pvc988]

Not much changed from that time. Maybe 'black magic' changed into 'black boxes'. Maybe more people can use computers (software has improved a lot) but most of the users still have no idea how it all works. And… data recovery techniques like that were already available in 90s.

[@GRBtutorials]

And if this happened nowadays, repairing it is just a matter of downloading a program and a few clicks. Once I accidentally deleted both the original and the backup MFT (Master File Table, NTFS equivalent of FAT) as I issued the Linux "dd" command into the wrong HDD. Oops! Fortunately, there was a program which was able to read the whole HDD with no problems. So I copied all the files to my computer, formatted the HDD, and recopied the files into the HDD, due to the limitation of the free version of not being able to just rebuild the MFT. But I did it without spending a cent.

[@castellorizon]

*My favourite pickup line from danooct1: One more seek test, because I like ya alot.*

[@Wormetti]

It spread around Australia, I'd be surprised if it was only a few thousand. A few friends had disks with it but we removed it before the activation date. I still have some 5.25" disks with all the viruses I found in the wild.

[@jacecurran8455]

I love the news clips at the beginning of the episode; it definitely adds a lot of context.

[@keeper7keys2003]

0:22 ~ 0:28 "...Michelangelo's birthday, in this day it destroys all the information stored in the archive file, a loss..."

[@DJGioGio]

Coronavirus: *exists* Michelangelo virus: *laughs in floppy*

[@mememachine7938]

Really loved that disaster movie-esque intro. Was really fitting for the subject

[@aubba]

I could listen to those seek tests all day!

[@sabletooth]

I like that the German report is indeed talking about how Michelangelo didn't do all that much after all. :D And to answer your question: Cool dude showcasing some really old computer viruses, some of which are hilarious!

[@douro20]

These viruses were very well written and have stealth capabilities which make them a bit hard to remove. Another variant, AntiEXE, is non-destructive but instead checks the size of an executed EXE file, and if it is exactly 200,256 bytes, prevents it from running.

[@TheBakingSeal]

1:42 "100,505,600 bytes free" That is 100.5056 megabytes To put that into perspective, Candy Crush Saga (233.1 megabytes) would have too much data to store on the disc

[@Chato-zg1jb]

Son bytes no son megabytes

[@zacharys5378]

Carlitos Aparicio he converted it into megabyes

[@danem2215]

If you put enough bytes together, you get megabytes dude

[@esper4605]

Dan's computer probably LIKES IT when he kills it. I envy you.

[@liofotia]

So it's... sadistic? Masochistic?

[@L0V3V4MP1R3]

Bugchaser disk

[@tsugihagiusagi5959]

OwO destroy me with that viwus daddy

[@maustank5224]

computer bdsm

[@dschannel1171]

​@@tsugihagiusagi5959 Aids?.... Just use a condom! (Aids II reference) LoL 😆😆😆

[@whereisthehook]

This was the first virus I actually encountered in the wild. It was at a law office, 3 conputer were wiped. I had to reinstall everything.

[@EmpSkit]

Loving the news clips at the beginning. You should do that more so we can see what people expected the virus to be during its creation

[@ПростоЧеловек-т6б]

Alternative title: Virus.DOS.Michelangelo (28 years later)

[@vrtr2378]

Прив русский

[@ПростоЧеловек-т6б]

@@vrtr2378 Странные рекомендации, конечно

[@vrtr2378]

@@ПростоЧеловек-т6б мне это в рек не приходило, я danooct1 смотрю

[@liamtowne9317]

I don't know why but I really like watching virus videos like yours and learning more about them

[@LucyBluecake]

And now, there is WannaCry...

[@douro20]

The only DOS virus I had to clean up from was AntiEXE. Thankfully the virus was well written and didn't do anything much besides spreading on the boot sectors on floppy disks and hard disks. It did require booting up the computer from a non-infected floppy to perform the removal, though.

[@KernelPanic0]

I think that a quality answer to that question at the end is that Danooct1 is like a product review channel, but for various malware. Also, he produces much better quality of content than most/all product review channels

[@CSXGirl822]

Those news clips proclaiming a digital apocalypse brought back soooooo many memories of Y2K...

[@joshr9071]

Great video, superb quality. It really shows how we have progressed since back then. Man... such a long time.

[@SoulcatcherLucario]

I love that seek testing sound.

[@DerpySwag]

I liked that bit where you showed the floppy disk you inserted into the PC with the infected files

[@gustavogoncalves3083]

Portuguese language (brazilian channel TV Cultura): "I'm talking about the Michelangelo, in this day it destroys all information stored in your files, a loss"...

[@Edwazah]

Omg, I remember back in the day here in Brazil and I was prohibited to turn on the computer "just in case". Now I know what would happened :)

[@expertchannel5448]

It was pretty easy to create a computer virus in early 90s. Macros of ms word was turned on by default. Even a small doc file could infect millions pc's

[@ImSquiggs]

Daaaaaamn, this is some high-quality danoct1. Professional production my friend.

[@BrynGriffithsVideo]

30 years now. What a year.

[@Deathninja5551]

I would say that he's a person who explores the depths of DOS viruses.

[@SoccerBoyAP]

Thanks for the flashback on Michelangelo, almost forgot about that one!

[@beez1717]

Danoct1: KZbinr that reviews and shows old computer viruses on a PC from the era when the virus may have been written.

[@kinker31]

This virus happens to be a day before my birthday. Strange, huh? Nice video, though! Slogan: "Data Destruction, only fun and without any of the setbacks! Educational, too!"

[@omeganave7425]

Answer: A guy who tests and reviews computer viruses.

[@Architector_4]

+Chopto I think I should write +Chopto and CTRL+C it...

[@g67785]

Lovely! A virus that activates on my birthday.

[@cossinle]

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[@shannonharvey8300]

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[@mysticaldaydream5946]

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[@Justin_Joy]

I'm not surprised that the news blew it out of porportion.

[@avalanche472]

I liked the archived videos at the beginning, added a historical feeling to it.

[@WOSArchives]

Ahh Michelangelo. The Y2K of viruses.

[@chrome7fan]

Hey Dan! Love the new way you make your videos, it's a big upscale! :D

[@fooball4589]

'I remember that German news report'

[@ChaseMC215]

The reporter must be very deluted

[@peterm246]

It was nice to see how this worked, but a bit more background on what it was exactly, who made created it and to what end (if this is known), as well as what efforts were made to fix the situation would have made for a more complete video.

[@CaroFDoom]

I'd describe Danooct1 as some guy who fucks up his old PC regularly and then fixes it "for teh lulz"

[@briandemodulated]

Weren't there utilities to rebuild the boot sector and FAT to regain access to your files?

[@JoeStuffz]

It would be tricky. If it was due to a screw-up, there's usually two copies of the FAT. A virus can mess up both copies though. The FAT told you how to piece together the 1s and 0s, and I think told you the file's name. However, you might be able to recover the data still, especially if you have a defragged drive. I'm not sure about then, but there's nice forensic tools today that can especially help. If you have a contiguous chunk of certain kinds of files, like .wav, you could recover it easily since you can find the header, and the header tells you the size of the following payload

[@palindrome06]

I kinda miss MS-DOS and the early 90's where viruses were really something to be scared of.

[@UberOfFP]

What happens if you set the date to the 7th of March?

[@UberOfFP]

Some things activate _on_ the day, some things activate on and _anytime after_ the date. It'd be quicker to check the actual day, granted, but _god forbid someone asks a question_.

[@Architector_4]

+Chopto !!!

[@az0r22]

you boys better quit this right now

[@az0r22]

chopto and architector

[@slaw2804]

Then i have birthday 😜

[@circleubuntu]

"And now the computer is screaming to us." The fan? Nope. The PC.

[@SheyTheGay]

The sounds of the old drives makes me so happy

[@chonkway7557]

what if they just set their clocks ahead and skipped the virus ever loading at risk of just having their clocks set back wrong once a year?

[@niviVEVO]

I will tell my friend that this is very cool channel that does crazy things with viruses.

[@Rashaexe]

the way you filmed in the dark looked dramatic. it made dos look great

[@TaekTara]

I had a strange dream last night, I was watching a Danooct1 video, then suddenly when I finished the video, my computer 💻 crashed, restarts and says Get a life N00B.

[@idealsurrealism9587]

ok

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

Imagine a virus like that

[@chrisd4208]

Dan: "Nothing's really loading..." *spams keyboard by presing enter multiple times* Computer: *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP* Dan: "...in fact the computer is now yelling at us because its frozen..." What the computer actually said: "FUCK YOU DAN CAN'T YOU SEE I'M FUCKING FROZEN. FUCK YOU. ACTUALLY, HELP. I'M HANGING. PLEASE DAN, HELP ME."

[@coolestdude42069]

Real Bad noob here..

[@JaredtheRabbit]

That keyboard is so soothing to hear.

[@Gold_Yoshi]

wow could have been avoided by... *pop sound of plug being.. unplugged* unplugging your computer

[@ikavolo2226]

Gold Yoshi i thought the same

[@tempacc3217]

Awnser for the question on video: A: Is some crazy dude who runs every crazy virus on his own computer. I love it!

[@natanmaxwell8752]

Wow, i was not expecting a "Cultura" report in this video.... Cool. Hello from Brazil, too

[@DELvEK]

That sound in the back (the computer loading) reminds me old ages @2:05 🙌👌

[@Etiblack01]

Answer: A descriptive and entertaining channel witha retro atmosphere and minimalistic naming with a retro atmosphere.

[@AbraxasTheSecond]

How I would describe danooct1: This channel that does demonstratinos of very old malware. Like, at the very latest Windows XP-era malware.

[@bekirbd]

3:09 : LORD OF THE KEYBOARDS

[@Fwacer]

I haven't watched a video in a while, so this may not be news, but the sounds seems a lot crisper now, sounds good!

[@4pxris3]

"in fact the computer is yelling at us because it's frozen" hahahaha

[@pxnt]

The video clip you used of german news about the virus actually just said that the virus wasn't as harmful as expected and that only a thousand or so computers had been infected.

[@DrTexx]

Loved the introduction Dan!

[@jodgladman]

Michelangelo is now 26 YEARS OLD!!!

[@Martin-kv3th]

I like how the german oke basically said "nothing bad happened reallt"

[@andresbravo2003]

Happy 30th Anniversary to Michelangelo Virus.

[@GBlastMan]

Wasnt the name of the main "evil" virus on the movie Hackers called "Da Vinci" kinda a small homage to this specific virus? because both are renassance painters, and both were italian as well so in a way when i always see the movie and hear the name Da Vinci it reminds me to this exact virus and how destructive people made it to be.

[@LanceGardenia]

Boot Sector Infector -- Quite possibly the most fun thing I've ever heard said. And yes, in case anyone is wondering, I did, in fact, pause the video and say "Boot Sector Infector" until I jumbled Sector and Infector into "Insectfler" and "Seftor". It was amazingly fun.

[@TorutheRedFox]

R.I.P. partition table and FAT

[@shaunp.261]

this a fantastically researched video

[@BemusingProjects]

Fantastic content as always.

[@lowpolyzoe]

danooct1 is a cool guy who makes videos of various viruses destroying PCs

[@JauntyJon]

*boot sector infector*

[@JauntyJon]

*bitmap boot sector infector*

[@videotoblin]

Boop sector infector

[@rachelrpl]

*_boot sector erector_*

[@THEOxxx197]

The boot sector infector sounds like a funny villain name

[@JoaoPaulo-zo1go]

I didn't know that TV Cultura here in Brazil. Did this article about the Michelangelo virus.

[@unsie]

the michelangelo virus thing that they were wrong about was like when you know your wrong but you try to make it so your right

[@eliottaramayo4238]

Wow it's actually been 25 years

[@GlitchyPSI]

i once accidentally destroyed my boot sector that was traumatizing.

[@MamaAki]

When the newsman said "Disappear into the void" I got sexy wet flashbacks to papa EXDEATH from FF5 "DISAPPEAR....INTO THE VOIIIIIIID!"

[@Reckno64]

Couldn't they have circumvented the virus by either not turning on their computers on March 6th or setting the time and date to a different day? I've always wondered that....

[@todensarg]

I love that startup!

[@lydialoud]

I believe in the movie Hackers, the "Da Vinci" virus was named after a Renaissance artist because of Michelangelo

[@thebroleo]

Im still goofing around with the name of this virus

[@NigelMontezuma]

Robin Hood, Mermaid Lady, Gandalf, Swamp Creature, 1980--Something Space Guy, 2002 NBA All-Stars, Wonder Woman, Green Ninja, Milhouse, Nice Vampire, Michelangelo, Michelangelo, & Cleopatra!