{"id":2576,"date":"2013-10-14T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/the-ping-pong-virus-also-called-boot-bouncing\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:01:58","slug":"the-ping-pong-virus-also-called-boot-bouncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2576 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=2577'><img width=\"128\" height=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mumhas7Vg31rpiyaso1_5001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ping-Pong_virus\">Ping-Pong virus<\/a> (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. The virus would become active if a disk access is made exactly on the half hour and start to show a small &#8220;ball&#8221; bouncing around the screen in both text mode (the ASCII bullet character &#8220;\u2022&#8221;) and graphical mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. The virus would become active if a disk access is made exactly on the half hour and start to show a small &#8220;ball&#8221; bouncing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1407,3,386,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}