The 10 KB virus

“Sir, do you what happened in the society’s meeting?” ”No. What?” I asked. “It was so funny!” I waited. “Dr. XXX was to present something in the society’s meeting. She gave her pen drive to the attendant of the auditorium to load her file and went somewhere. When he connected it to the computer, the antivirus program of the computer found 58 viruses in it.” That was a bit surprising, since this doctor always projected a very tech savvy image. “Then he showed it to one of the members of the society. She took the pen drive to another computer and connected it to it.” That sounded funny. If the first one found 58 viruses, it should have been allowed to clean them. It could not be a demo version, which just detected viruses, and wanted the user to buy it so that it would remove the viruses. Not in the main auditorium. “I don’t know if the new computer did it, or it was the first one, or if it was the work of one of the viruses in the pen drive. When the explorer opened the pen drive, all the files on it were of 10 KB each. He…he…he…he…” This was a new one. The virus writer must have a weird sense of humor. To replace each file, irrespective of its original size, by something of 10 KB? Perhaps he was one who believed in equality for all. “Luckily she has all data on her home computer.” Yes, and also the 58 viruses which were on the pen drive.