New Computer Viruses to Be On the Lookout For
Tonya Harding Virus: Turns your .BAT files into lethal weapons.
Paul Revere Virus: Warns of an impending virus infection: 1 if by LAN, 2
if by C:\
Hillary Rodham Clinton Virus: Instantly turns 1K of disk space into 1
Meg.
Ollie North Virus: Plays a patriotic .WAV while it shreds your files.
Joey Buttafuaco Virus: Only attacks minor files.
Ronald Reagan Virus: Saves your data, but forgets where it's stored.
Jane Fonda Virus: Attacks your hard drive's FAT.
Oprah Winfrey Virus: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and
then slowly expands to 300MB.
AT&T Virus: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are
getting.
MCI Virus: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too
much for the AT&T virus.
Politically Correct Virus: Never calls itself a "virus," but instead
refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."
Ross Perot Virus: Activates every component in your system, just before
the whole darn thing quits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Virus: Terminates and stays resident. It'll be
back.
Government Economist Virus: Nothing works, but all your diagnostic
software says everything is fine.
Federal Bureaucrat Virus: Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little
units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to
be the most important part of your computer.
Adam and Eve Virus: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple computer.
Congressional Virus #1: The computer locks up, screen splits erratically
with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for the
problem.
Congressional Virus #2: Runs every program on the hard drive
simultaneously but doesn't allow the user to accomplish anything.
Airline Virus: You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.
Freudian Virus: Your computer becomes obsessed with its own motherboard.
Or becomes very jealous of the size of your friend's hard drive.
PBS Virus: Your computer stops every few minutes to ask for money.
Jimmy Hoffa Virus: Your programs can never be found again.
LAPD Virus: It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC
and erases them in "self-defense."
O.J. Virus: It claims that it did not, could not and would not delete
two of your files and vows to find the virus that did it.
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