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ANSI-portrait of Doug Moore (at sixteencolors.net) made by tcf (Aaron Frick). 160 columns wide. source

Chinese ANSI by missher.

Koala Country was an Australian BBS, 1989-1995. More here.

“Video Coding – I’ll be there for you like I’ve been there before.”

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By dMG/dS! for asciiarena.com

LSD Virus (1994)  overwrites all files of current directory and manifests itself with a video effect. Then it displays the message:

LSD ViRuS 1.0 Coded By Death Dealer 4/29/94 [TeMpEsT -94]

It also contains the string: Author:

Death Dealer Of [TeMpEsT]Virus:[LSD]

The Walker virus (1998) causes an old man, which happens to be a sprite ripped out of the game Bad Street Brawler, to walk across the screen at regular intervals, interrupting any work being done on the PC.

The Rescue virus (1997), which shows a screen full of nonsense messages.

Rescue 911 Computer Virus ——————————————
Dear user„ Your system is executing an illegal instruction at address 5E10:2D8F. However, this might cause you lots of problems later on. The system has got stuck , so please reboot your machine and make sure that all your programs are clean. This error message is being broadcasted by the 911 computer VIRUS !! Have a nice day ..

Hellraiser’s version of the Leprosy virus. He was a member of the prolific virus group Phalcon/Skism. They released an e-zine between 1991 and 1998 called 40hex.

Your PC has been infected by the Suicide virus.
I will now kill myself. Press D to disinfect.

The Suicide Virus by Phalcon/Skism (1992), via.