Its best known for the music that gave it its name.
Mars Land is just one variant of the Spanska virus.
Hymn
In those days virus was an act of rebellion rather than causing loss to the victim.
Most virus writers loved to get those extra giggles from their creations.
This one brought some delayed giggles!
Like many early viruses, Hymn had teeth; it could render a victimized PC unbootable without special utilities.
LSD
LSD virus was really a nasty piece of work.
It was first of its kind to rely on its charm to fool victims.
It then displayed the triumphant message, Coded By Death Dealer 4/29/94.
Hapless victims then played five rounds of Jackpot, purportedly to save their files.
Walker
This DOS virus was the first instance to make porn a bait to lure the victim.
Many harmless versions of the virus only opened a pornographic image on victims PC.
Users were unable to input data during the annoying strolls, but that was the extent of the damage.
Crash
Crash is one of the most secretive virus from 1990s.
Crash fills the screen with test-pattern colors and nonsense characters, flashing alarmingly at the hapless user.
You could halt the dance by pressing CTR-ALT-DEL only to learn that your files had been wiped out.
Skynet
This Arnold Schwarzenegger starrerThe Terminatorinspired virus was a piece of art in its heydays.
It infected all .exe files, slowing the PC dramatically.
CoffeeShop
This was one of those protest viruses to legalize cannabis.
source: www.techworm.net
