Tag Archives: 1990s

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.

NuKE’s Randomic Life Generator (1994) Virus Creation Tool by Azrael / Argentin, via.

Japanese Cookie (1992), also known as Japanese Xmas.Cookie, Virus.DOS.Christmas.653, or just JapaneseCookie) is a variant of the Japanese Christmas DOS virus.

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 ..

Murderer virus (1997) It displays an ASCII cake and plays “Happy Birthday” on the PC speaker. When the computer is rebooted, the drive is formatted, and all data is lost. A message is also written:

To the human: The emperor of darkness “Satan” has came back from hell, and he will destroyn the world, all human will be take to the horrendous darkness. But one man who can fight with Satan, “Son of brightness” has born. He will lead us to fight with Satan, and kick him back to the hell. So, hurry up, go to Taiwan to find our rescuer ==> Chinq-shyang Lay. « All augur »

Little Green Caterpillar virus

Casino virus (1991). The virus makes you play a game of jackpot for your data.

Devil’s Dance DOS Virus (1993)

DotEater, Virus/Trojan (1998)

Ambulance or Ambulance Car virus (Germany, 1990).
When an infected file is executed, an ASCII ambulance can be seen moving across the screen and a siren start to sound displaying a alert message like : BOOM!. Ambulance is not a destructive virus; it simply spreads itself around and shows off its payload once in a while.