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[…] The advent of electronic textuality presents us with an unparalleled opportunity to re-formulate fundamental ideas about texts and, in the process, to see print as well as electronic texts with fresh eyes. For theory, this is the “something gained” that media translation can offer. It is a gift we cannot afford to refuse.”

N. Katherine Hayles. Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality; “The Yale Journal of Criticism”. pp. 263-364

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O vírus informático caracteriza-se pela instrução ou por uma série de instruções parasitas introduzidas num programa, de modo a provocar diversas perturbações no funcionamento do computdor. Este adventício, que tem uma existência puramente computacional, tem consequências visíveis na página Web visto que é nesta que se proliferam e, também, se reflectem através de erros e falhas.

O objecto editorial foi contaminado e a sua leitura impossibilitada. Por outro lado, e de forma a complementar, está a plataforma Web que descodifica e permite a leitura do objecto anterior.

A exploração do vírus desdobra-se, assim, em duas partes explorando de duas maneiras o conteúdo/informação.

Trata-se de um objecto híbrido constituído por uma página Web e um livro impresso que apresenta vários sintomas de virose causados por worms, trojans e bombas lógicas.

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::Objecto editorial contaminado::

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::Páginas impressas das imagens do livro original existente na plataforma Web::

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/T/e/x/t/o/ /b/a/s/e/ /p/a/r/a/ /a/ /r/e/a/l/i/z/a/ç/ã/o/ /d/o/ /e/x/e/r/c/í/c/i/o/ /B/i/b/l/i/o/t/e/c/a/ /d/e/ /B/a/b/e/l/

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Os vírus podem destruir ficheiros individuais ou apagar o conteúdo de todos os discos duros de uma rede não existindo uma garantia absoluta de imunidade contra a infecção. Para tornar o quadro pior novas “espécies” estão a proliferar incluindo vírus que se escondem das técnicas mais básicas de detecção e vírus mutantes, que criam versões únicas de eles próprios tornando-se muito difíceis de detectar. Apesar da ameaça crescente, a situação está longe de ser desesperante, uma vez que existem pessoas empenhadas na defesa e destruição das más intenções existentes por trás de quem faz os vírus. 

—Vírus informático de Ademar Cruz Caralho Tavares; 1999—

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Cidade do México, 19 Jun (Lusa) - Os vírus informáticos que no passado ameaçavam os internautas estão a partir de hoje em exibição num zoológico virtual, no Museu Tamayo, México, criado pelo artista argentino Gustavo Romano.

A exposição "cumpre todos os objectivos de um zoológico normal, uma vez que foram resgatados todos os vírus que já não são prejudiciais porque, em geral, são vírus antigos que os antivírus detectam muito facilmente, e o que existe é um programa de reinserção na Internet que é o seu habitat natural", explicou Romano.

Por exemplo, na rede do zoológico (www.cyberzoo.org), há uma secção para evitar postais informáticos que levam o vírus "I love you", o "Marburg", o "World Cup 98" ou o "Phantom" que, apesar de serem reais, já não danificam os computadores.

—fonte:rtp—

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The Virus Creation Laboratory, or VCL, as it is known, was one of the earliest attempts to provide a virus creation tool so that individuals with little to no programming expertise could mass-create computer viruses.

A hacker dubbed "Nowhere Man", of the NuKE hacker group, released it in July of 1992.

However, it was later discovered that viruses created with the Virus Creation Laboratory were often ineffective, as many anti-virus programs of the day caught them easily. Also, many viruses created by the program did not work at all - and often, their source codes could not be compiled. Due to a limited feature set and bugs, the Virus Creation Laboratory did not become popular with virus writers, who preferred to write their own.

—Wikipedia—

other links: http://vx.netlux.org/vx.php?id=tv03 /// http://www.textfiles.com/virus/DOCUMENTATION/vcl.txt

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V/I/R/U/S/ /#/ /F/A/S/E/ /II/

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Computer expert put an advertisement on the Internet offering a free computer virus for everyone willing to have one.

Didier Stevens from Helsinki ran his advertising campaign on Google's Adword for half of the year. As a result of his campaign 409 people clicked on the ad, that said: "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!"

There are several suggestion on people's willingness to download malicious virus said Mikko Hypponen, who conducted the research at data security firm F-Secure. First of all, people must have mistakenly pushed the button, second - curiosity sometimes overcomes natural prudence and thirdly, some people must have been stupid.

In fact, Stevens tried the experiment with no actual virus. He wanted to demonstrate the advertising system can be a good source for everyone including those who have a malicious objective.

—Need a computer virus - download now!—

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"In a sense, artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans (collaborating as JODI since 1994) are the Dadaists of Internet art: Like those early members of the avant-garde, their work employs strategies of rupture and subversion to create an estrangement effect, jarring viewers for a moment out of their everyday lives online." Margaret Sundell, ArtForum

An innocent visit to www.jodi.org brings immediate, alarming results: Mini browser windows, each completely black except for the standard white menu bar, manically proliferate on your desktop; they'll persist until you close your Internet browser completely.

Does www.jodi.org still stand up as a seminal piece of net art? Or is it simply a virus? Does the work reveal something mysterious about the hidden programming that lies beneath the smooth surface of corporate software? And what does Jodi's work tell us about our Net condition - the complex online world we increasingly inhabit?

—ideasMart—

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The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common 'hallucinations' of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the 'Other Half' worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.

—Wikiquote; William Borroughs—

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Quem pensa que um vírus que computador é igual à um vírus humano, está completamente... certo! Bom, em certa parte certo.
Um vírus humano, como o HIV, tem a função de contaminar todas as células do seu organismo, assim como o vírus Donatelo tinha como finalidade contaminar todos os arquivos .exe do seu computador.
Assim como o vírus HIV, o vírus de computador é transmitido de várias maneiras diferentes. Seja ela por disquete, e-mail, programas ou até mesmo por cartões postais. Um vírus vem sempre escondido, camuflado.
Em sua grande maioria das vezes, o vírus infecta o computador do usuário, através de e-mails com mensagens de parabéns, de feliz ano novo, ou até mesmo de mensagens amorosas, como o vírus I Love You.

—Vírus de Computador—

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I suggest that the spoken word as we know it came after the written word. (...) we may forget that a written word is an image and that written words are images in sequence that is to say moving pictures. (...) My basis theory is that the written word was literally a virus that made the spoken word possible. Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz has put forward an interesting theory as to the origins and history of this word virus. He postulates that the word was a virus of what he calls biologic mutation effecting a biologic change in its host which was then genetically conveyed. One reason that apes cannot talk is because the structure of their inner throats is simply not designed to formulate words. He postulates that alteration in inner throat structure were occasioned by a virus illness ....

— William S. Burroughs, 'The Electronic Revolution'—