New Computer Viruses

  • 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.
  • Politically Correct virus: Never calls itself a "virus", but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."
  • 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.
  • New World Order virus: Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it.
  • 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.
  • Texas virus: Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file.
  • Adam and Eve virus: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.
  • Congressional virus: The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem.
  • Airline virus: You're in Dallas but your data is in Singapore.
  • Freudian virus: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying to its own motherboard.
  • Public Television virus: Your programs stop every few minutes to ask for money.
  • Elvis virus: Your computer gets fat, slow and lazy, then self destructs only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.
  • Nike virus: Just does it.
  • Congressional virus #2: Runs every program on the hard drive simultaneously, but doesn't allow the user to accomplish anything.
  • Star Trek virus: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before.
  • Health Care virus: Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends you a bill for $4,500.
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