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...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I'm still eating milletloaf every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worm Turns...Out To Be A Bust | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I?m still eating milletloaf every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Code Red Worm Turns ... Out to Be a Bust | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Laroux arrives as an unassuming Microsoft Excel file known as a macro. Ethan, Marker, Class and Footer hide inside Microsoft Word macros. Happy, Form and Chernobyl work on Windows, while big-league heavies like Explore.zip (not to mention year 2000 contenders Kakworm, Bubbleboy and, of course, ILoveYou) head straight for Microsoft Outlook Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bug Analysis: Why PCs Are Easy Targets | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...mail computer virus called the Bubbleboy virus? That's a weird name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...make them cool? Well, who do you think makes e-mail viruses? This reference is to the Seinfeld episode where the gang meets a sick young man who has to live in a bubble. The corrupted e-mail registers the recipient in his or her Outlook Express program as "Bubbleboy" of "Vandelay Industries" (a reference to one of George Costanza's fictional workplaces). Melissa, an earlier e-mail virus, makes a similarly hip reference to the Simpsons when opened, but the name itself supposedly came from a stripper in Florida, where the accused author of the program once lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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