Pikachu virus
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The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus
targeted towards children. It contains the character "Pikachu
" from the Pokémon
series, and is in the form of an e-mail titled "Pikachu " with the message: "Pikachu is your friend."
When users open an attachment, an image of a pensive Pikachu appears on the screen with the ungrammatical message: "Between millions of people around the world I found you. Don't forget to remember this day every time MY FRIEND." It simultaneously sends e-mails to everyone in the user's address book, giving it the potential to spread quickly. It also adds the lines "del C:\WINDOWS" and "del C:\WINDOWS\system32" to the file "autoexec.bat", which is executed at next boot. The virus was not well coded, so it would give a prompt asking if you wanted to delete those folders.
Computer virus
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targeted towards children. It contains the character "Pikachu
Pikachu
is one of the species of Pokémon creatures from the Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. As do all Pokémon, Pikachu fight other Pokémon in battles central to the anime, manga, and games of the series...
" from the Pokémon
Pokémon
is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...
series, and is in the form of an e-mail titled "Pikachu " with the message: "Pikachu is your friend."
When users open an attachment, an image of a pensive Pikachu appears on the screen with the ungrammatical message: "Between millions of people around the world I found you. Don't forget to remember this day every time MY FRIEND." It simultaneously sends e-mails to everyone in the user's address book, giving it the potential to spread quickly. It also adds the lines "del C:\WINDOWS" and "del C:\WINDOWS\system32" to the file "autoexec.bat", which is executed at next boot. The virus was not well coded, so it would give a prompt asking if you wanted to delete those folders.