- 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.