_________________________________________________________________ COMPUTER VIRUSES I'D LIKE TO SEE! _________________________________________________________________ * 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:. * Right-to-life Virus: Won't allow you to delete a file, regardless of how old it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about possible alternatives. * Dan Quayle Virus 1: Prevents your system from spawning any child processes without joining into a binary network. * Dan Quayle Virus 2: Their iz sumthing rong with yore compueter, ewe just cant figyour owt watt. * Mario Cuomo Virus: It would be a great virus, but it refuses to run. * George Bush Virus: It starts by boldly stating, "Read my test ... no new files!" on the screen, proceeds to fill up all the free space on your hard drive with new files, then blames it on the Congress Virus. * Ross Perot Virus: Activates every component in your system, just before the whole thing quits. * Arnold Schwarzenegger Virus: Terminates and stays resident. It'll be back. * Michael Jackson Virus: Hard to identify because it is constantly altering its appearance. This virus won't harm your PC, but it will trash your car. * Elvis Virus: Your computer gets fat, slow, and lazy and then self destructs, only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America. * Oliver North Virus: Turns your printer into a document shredder. * Terry Randle Virus: Prints "Oh no you don't"whenever you choose "Abort" from the "Abort, Retry, Fail" message. * Ted Turner Virus: Colorizes your monochrome monitor. * Jimmy Hoffa Virus: Nobody can find it. * Adam-and-Eve Virus: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple. * LA PD Virus: It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases them in "self-defense." * 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. * 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 the computer. * Government Economist Virus: Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine. * Health Care Virus: Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends you a bill for $4,500. * Star Trek Virus: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before. * AT&T Virus: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting. * The MCI Virus: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus. * PBS Virus: Your PC stops every few minutes to ask for money. * Politically correct Virus: Never calls itself a "virus," but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism". * Oprah Winfrey Virus: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands back to 200MB. * Texas Virus: Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file. * Airline Virus: You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore. * Sears Virus: Your data won't appear unless you buy new cables, power supply, and a set of shocks. * New World Order Virus: Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it. * Gallup Virus: Sixty percent of the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error). * Imelda Marcos Virus: Sings you a song (slightly off key) on boot up then subtracts money from your Quicken account and spends it all on expensive shoes it purchases through Prodigy. * Freudian Virus: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard. * Nike Virus: Just Does It! * Kevorkian Virus: Helps your computer shut down whenever it wants to. * Cleveland Indians Virus: Makes your 486/50 machine perform like a 286/AT. * Chicaco Cubs Virus: Your PC makes frequent mistakes and comes in last in the reviews, but you still love it. _________________________________________________________________ Converted to HTML by Kai Holst _________________________________________________________________