Why some computer viruses refuse to die
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We had there some 1.44mb discs with the game "Lotus III", so whenever we were bored we would play a little.
One day I arrived at work... And they were scrambling all over the place using ancient antivirus from same era as Lotus III... Found out we played that game on tons of random computers and it was infected with a DOS vírus that could actually copy itself to USB drives too... Whooops.
We caused outbreak of what was then an already obsolete virus. (Most of the machines had windows 98 in them at best... The virus worked on then surprisingly fine despite being intended for DOS, and in those machines specifically it would infect USB)
Well, windows 98 was essentially a GUI over DOS, so that is not at all "strange", what is more strange is the effect on USB, most probably the virus would affect any mounted volume (at filesystem/mount level as opposed to disk/mass storage).
As a side note, in my time (only slightly earlier) Lotus (more properly Lotus 1-2-3) was not at all a game but rather the "only" spreadsheet program available, what a number of people would now call "an Excel spreadsheet" was at the time a "Lotus spreadsheet".
Later when they were making a sequel it ended in Super Nintendo, with cars changed (Lotus in the title referred to the car company) due to license issues, spawning Top Gear series.
Lotus and Top Gear were wildly popular in Brazil, and thus recently a Brazilian studio made a spiritual sucessor (including hiring the otigibaly musician to make more of his very iconic music) that is named "Horizon Chase", so if you curious about what is so fun in "Lotus" to spread a virus, play Horizon Chase, gameplay is almost identical actually.
That already exists, and has existed for many years, it's called 'heuristics'. Not quite as buzzwordy without hanging 'AI' on it though.