This was not a good combination. Zorg had not come out yet, but was to be released on New Years day 2050. Newman, who had never done anything wrong in his life, did something that Christmas Eve that Adolph Hitler would have thought to be inhumane. He programmed Zorg to transmit anthrax via the Internet. Newman, having been a chemist major at Berkley, knew how to produce the fatal virus Anthrax.
Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Anthrax spores can be produced in a dry form, which Newman created for biological warfare. Zorg could be programmed to do just about anything. Downloading an undetectable virus into thousands of homes was something quite elementary for this new Internet program. Although virus detector programs were at its peak, so was the mass production of undetectable viruses sent to computers through the Internet. Newman, being a computer genius and expert chemist, combined his talents to make Zorg transmit the actual human terminating virus Anthrax into homes across the world.