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Esperanto (computer virus)

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files on PC, as well as most programs on Macintosh. Despite its platform neutrality, it appears as though it never spread organically across platforms due to recompile errors in the source code, and in order to cross platform barriers needed to be transferred through manual means. It ran entirely
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Never mind your culture / Ne gravas via kulturo, Esperanto will go beyond it / Esperanto preterpasos ĝin; never mind the differences / ne gravas la diferencoj, Esperanto will overcome them / Esperanto superos ilin. Never mind your processor / Ne gravas via procesoro, Esperanto will work in it /
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Esperanto lays unapparent when it spreads through infected files, and is activated on the 26th of July each year, on Esperanto Day, the anniversary of the symbolic founding of the language. On this day, when an infected file is launched, it will display the following
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Esperanto funkcios sub ĝi; never mind your platform / Ne gravas via platformo, Esperanto will infect it / Esperanto infektos ĝin. Now not only a human language, but also a virus... Turning impossible into possible, Esperanto.
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systems, the first platform-agnostic virus of its kind. The virus is also similar to the language in that it is activated on the 26th of July,
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Per the bilingualism of the messages, some have theorized that the virus programmer behind Esperanto.4733 may have been an
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Index

computer virus
1997
constructed language
Esperanto
DOS
Windows
Macintosh
Esperanto Day
.COM
.EXE
bilingual
English
Esperantist


"The history of computer viruses"



"A MULTIPROCESSOR and MULTIPLATFORM virus"
the original


"Virus Information - Esperanto.4733"
the original
Categories
Computer viruses
Esperanto culture

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