V-Sign is a boot sector virus from 1992. It is slightly polymorphic and displays an image after infecting 64 diskettes.
ATTENTION I have been elected to inform you that throughout your process of collecting and executing files, you have accdientally (sic) ¶HÜ¢KΣ► [PHUCKED] yourself over: again, that’s PHUCKED yourself over. No, it cannot be; YES, it CAN be, a √ìτûs [virus] has infected your system. Now what do you have to say about that? HAHAHAHAHA. Have ¶HÜÑ [PHUN] with this one and remember, there is NO cure for AIDS
AIDS (circa 1990) is a computer virus written in Turbo Pascal 3.01a which overwrites com files.
An ANSI-bomb changes the keys of your keyboard. For example, when you press return it will ask if you want to format your hard drive. If you answer N as in no, it might be formatted anyway if N has been programmed to mean Y.
It’s not really a virus, since it just uses a built-in feature of ANSI.SYS, but it can be used to make trojans still gets some virus-paranoid people going.
HLLC.Plane (1996).
Size: 8304 and written with Turbo Pascal.
HLLC.Plane activates by random. When it activates, it shows a character-based animation of a red plane flying past the screen and dropping a parachute in the middle of the screen.
Super Mario Bros, made in Taiwaneese ANSI text graphics. via
Works by Trivial for the Amiga ASCII Art Exhibition in Cologne 2013. The first two ones made together with Mortimer Twang and the last one together with dMG.
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