Mildly inconvenient computer viruses

[Incendiary]

These might be worse than the ones that encrypt your files and lock them behind a bitcoin paywall or record your keystrokes to extract login information and personal details.

Okay, that's a lie. But they're still pretty bad, right?

Post the function (and maybe name) of a virus that only mildly annoys the user. It can't compromise the functionality of the system, but can make those things significantly harder to do. The next user reacts to how the virus affects their computer use, and then comes up with their own Mildly Inconvenient Computer Virus™

Some rules to go over (this is updated as needed):
- Please don't just say how you'd work around the virus, that's boring. If it genuinely doesn't affect your day-to-day computer use, explain why.
- The virus cannot affect hardware. No underclocks, excessive power consumption, disabling ports, locking RAM or drive space, etc.
- Please divide your response and virus description with at least 5 hyphens, underscores or other non-alphanumerical symbols.
- No, you cannot get rid of the virus
- You also cannot circumvent the virus

(This post has no virus)

[ToniBrown148]

Creates a popup that says:
"Hello. I'm a virus. Could you please copy me onto another machine?"

[PkmnQ]

I look around.

There is only my machine.

I click "No".

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Adds an extra zero width space into folder and file names.

[Incendiary]

[ngv]Please divide your response and virus description with at least 5 hyphens, underscores or other non-alphanumerical symbols[/ngv]

[Incendiary]

Bump

[Incendiary]

Bump

[Orb Fish]

I shrug and fix my TCINAR Entries folder.

@$%&#!

Once every week, all desktop objects move one pixel to the left.

[TheGlassPenguin]

Right-click top bar -> Lock desktop and panels

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Every time you press a key, the theme color changes. Bonus points if there's a random chance it'll turn on high-contrast mode.

[Incendiary]

Ay why my taskbar gone RGB

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Every time you boot up, random file names will have a random number, letter or symbol added to them.

[TheGlassPenguin]

simple, don't reboot or shut down your machine. just log out and put it in sleep mode.
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at random times during the day, the button you've clicked most in the program you've used the most just stops working.

[Incendiary]

simple, don't reboot or shut down your machine. just log out and put it in sleep mode.
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at random times during the day, the button you've clicked most in the program you've used the most just stops working.

[ngv]Waking the system still counts as booting up[/ngv]

[SuperKamekArea]

"why can't I find and replace in notepad"?

every 30 minutes, a random folder on the computer gets added to the taskbar as a toolbar, notepad saves and closes and then the dvd drive gets ejected

[Incendiary]

What DVD drive? Why are you asking for me to install DVD drive drivers? Why is notepad my most used app?
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Each time the cursor crosses between one of the 4 quadrants of the monitor, a random image is pulled from the internet, heavily deep fried and downloaded to a new folder in an available drive.
(If the mouse cursor is hidden, it's still being tracked, and will still activate the virus)

[TheGlassPenguin]

"all i wanted to do was make a scratch project! why is my hard drive full?"

every 3 clicks, your screen flips 90 degrees.

[Luigis_Pizza]

Wii Sports Piracy

Every time a button is clicked, a very loud version of the wii sports theme is played, the sound buttons are also disabled and stuck on 100.

[Renamed user 17322184719]

Rickroll.mp3 plays every 10 minutes.  Donating to Rick Astley or installing Linux removes the virus.

[Incendiary]

Rickroll.mp3 plays every 10 minutes.  Donating to Rick Astley or installing Linux removes the virus.

[ngv]
Please read the rules. You're supposed to react to the above virus and how it'd affect you. No, you can't remove the virus.
[/ngv]

[Luigis_Pizza]

say goodbye/10

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TBG Activity

Opens up the TBG forums on your browser every 60 seconds to make people active.

[TheGlassPenguin]

*uses ff extension to wrangle the spammed tabs and throw them out* i prefer to visit the tbgs when i feel like it.
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if you haven't played a tbg today, you will not be able to save or upload files anywhere.

[SuperKamekArea]

"why can't I view assets.scratch images?", "why isn't my website working?" (websites upload files to clients which view the downloaded file in their internet browser)

If you don't have a dvd drive, random usb-connected dvd drives get ordered over amazon and ebay

[Incendiary]

What happened to the 30 dollars I found a week ago?

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Every time you use a keyboard shortcut, you are disconnected from the internet briefly (Wi-Fi or Ethernet, doesn't matter) and Powershell opens up to rickroll you with text.

[TheGlassPenguin]

(casually presses ctrl-c to copy a layer) dang, there goes my no rickroll streak.
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getting rickrolled causes your desktop to flip upsidedown.

[Luigis_Pizza]

my desktop is gonna go crazy
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using the ctrl + x shortcut causes all your drivers to go out of date

[Incendiary]

I've been receiving driver updates daily for 8 weeks now, and I don't know why or how.

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Every time you press right click, space bar, enter, = or + keys, a random meme sound is downloaded. If multiple buttons are pressed at a time, several of those random sounds play.

[TheGlassPenguin]

(loud cringe tiktok sounds reverberate through the zoom call where the *.md game's developers are talking)
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using google redirects you to ecosia. likewise, using twitter redirects you to wasteof,money.