A variant of the infamous and once-common Jerusalem computer virus for DOS. According to F-secure, this virus has existed, but no virus researcher has got a specimen.
This virus is a pretty stupid one, for several reasons.
It activated on January 1, 2000, and displayed the message "Welcome to the 21st Century". It, like Jerusalem, zeroed all FATs and disk data sectors it could find.
The problems?
- The virus appreared in the 80s. If this virus existed, there was more than a decade to get rid of it.
- The virus author was foolish enough to think that MS-DOS would still be in use in 2000 - ah, never mind, it was, but I bet the releases of Win95 and Win98 probably somewhat cramped this virus, as DOS viruses don't spread that well in Windows apps =)
- The 21st century started on 2001-01-01, not 2000-01-01... Ah, hell, why am I telling this, no one listened then and won't listen to me now, either?