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TMK Stuff => Game Blog => Topic started by: Super-Jesse on July 31, 2007, 07:24:53 AM
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Have you ever wondered why email isn't common in the Mushroom Kingdom? Sure, we could say that the Toads are just stuck in the 80's, but the real reason might be this new virus that's going around, using their hero Mario as the culprit. A mass-mailing virus is going out that's attempting to lure users in by disguising itself as an innocent Mario game. When users launch the game though, they also launch a file containing a worm. Currently, Bowser isn't being questioned (but if he didn't do it, then who did?). Have there been other instances where Mario was used as the source for a computer virus? I can't think of any.
Hmm, seems we gotta start a virus page (http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/green.shtml) on the site....
Link: sophos.com (http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/07/mario.html)
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Ugh, why would anyone want to do this anyway? "Hey, I'm gonna send a virus to everyone's computer even though I get no money for it and I'll eventually get caught and sent to jail anyway! Wow, what an amazing idea!" Unless some guy's paying him to do this.
Anyway, Mario is being used for the forces of evil; he's gone from hero to two-timing, double-crossing crook. He even makes the little children believe he's still the good guy by disguising himself as a game, then he strikes when they least expect. Don't you care about the children Mario? You disgust me.
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It's not Mario himself. Someone is mooching off his good image. Bowser is definitely behind this. Either that or Wario.
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Get me Dr. Mario on line 1.
Mario fangames sent through e-mail--with a virus?!? I knew there was no free lunch...
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By the way, if you want the non-virus version of that game, it can be found here: http://home.wxs.nl/~mikewiering/msrc/
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Bowser Jr. is at it again, or, Doopliss took Mario's identity again! O.o
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I used to have the unfinished version of that game (basically a fork by someone), before the guy who wrote it originally came back to put it out, and it ran fine on my old 486. Then I got the "official" version and it ran way slower.
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Ugh, why would anyone want to do this anyway?
They get what they call, "lulz."
LULZ is a corruption of L-O-L. Which stands for laugh-out-loud.
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It wasn't a fork, it was just a beta copy that was illegally sold. I don't know why the new version would run slower unless you were just using a new version of Windows, which doesn't like old DOS programs like that very much. It should still run great on a 486.
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I don't think this is necessarily new...
My friend told me about someone who found a Mario fangame on his computer somehow and got infested with viruses. Perhaps it's been out for a while, but only now is...um...Bowser? Bowser Jr.? Doopliss? Wario? Waluigi? Some loser living in his mom's basement with nothing better to do than create virus Mario fangames? starting to send it out in mass e-mails.
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No, this is new. This is the first one specifically using the Mario game to trick people into spreading it. Other viruses could have infected a Mario game, but that wasn't the original design.
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I guess that's what he was talking about, then.
Well, I hope the person behind this eventually gets punished. Severely. He (she? it?) deserves it for using Mario like this.
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I was running it in pure DOS iirc. Been a while though so I don't remember.
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I never expected a Mario virus...but I guess things have to happen someday.
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*thinks of the viruses in the Dr. Mario games*
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Let's get three in the same place and see if they'll disappear.
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But we'll need a Megavitamin capsule that matches their color....
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Interesting, the computers in my old school had that game. I wonder if one of my ex-classmates still has the game in a floppy disk.
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Man, that just makes me mad, someone creating a Mario Virus. I hope the creator gets what he deserves.