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Downloader Virus

Computer Virus that downloads your favorite music
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A computer virus that spreads through email.

You receive a virus attachment in an email. It's from your friend so you open it.

It installs a P2P service on your computer. It makes the screen go black. It says "Tell me your favorite music, or I will delete your computer!".

You type in your favorite music, it downloads it. It orders you to listen to it.

WilliamSharkey, May 11 2007

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       Then you tell the RIAA it wasn't you.
Ketchupybread, May 12 2007
  

       // or I will delete your computer! // You'd be amazed the amount of people that say that their computer has been deleted.   

       I like the idea of receiving an attache though.
marklar, May 13 2007
  

       I like the idea of a downloader being a virus... very intresting legally... setup with a torrent sites RSS add a few key words for auto downloading, that way its all out of your control. Then if a company/organisation appears and trys to sue.. it simply wasen't your fault it was a virus.
AbyssUK, May 14 2007
  

       Abyss - Yes - I had this idea for legal reasons. Thanks for explaining that, I should have.
WilliamSharkey, Apr 28 2009
  
      
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