1997 COMPUTER VIRUSES YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- Oprah Winfrey Virus: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and
then slowly expands back to 200MB.
- 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.
- Paul Revere Virus: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It
warns you of impending hard disk attack -- once if by LAN, twice if by C:\
- Politically Correct Virus: Never calls itself a "virus," but instead
refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."
- Ted Turner Virus: Colorizes your monochrome monitor.
- Freudian Virus: Your computer becomes obsessed with its own motherboard.
- Elvis Virus: Your computer gets fat, slow and lazy, then self-destructs
-- only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.
- Chicago Cubs Virus: Your PC makes frequent mistakes and comes in last in
the reviews, but you still love it.
- Star Trek Virus: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone
before.