Malware boiz

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Malware boiz are a virtual species. They're uncommon outside of electronic devices, but very common on devices that have access to the internet. They're known for harming lots of computers since the start of the interwebs. They're also distant relatives of hacky boiz.
== Variations ==
(note these appearances are undisguised appearances. most of the time, malware boiz are invisible or disguised as other species.)
Virus: Crimson fur with light red undercoat, a orange nose and a blue eye and a green eye. Most common variant. When referring to a virus malware boi, call it a "virus malware boi".
Trojan: Fully light brown fur, a dark brown nose, and white eyes. When referring to a trojan malware boi, call it a "trojan malware boi".
Adware: Fully dark purple fur, a black nose, a yellow mouth, and yellow eyes. When referring to a adware malware boi, call it an "adware boi".
Rogue Antivirus: Orange fur with light blue undercoat, a neon blue nose, and red eyes. When referring to a rogue antivirus malware boi, call it a "rogue antivirus boi".
Spyware: Black fur with a grey undercoat, black nose (to camouflage with the fur), and gray eyes. When referring to a spyware malware boi, call it a "spyware boi".
Ransomware: Bright blue fur with light blue undercoat, a golden nose, and black eyes. When referring to a ransomware malware boi, call it a "ransomware boi"
Worm: Magenta fur with a pink undercoat, purple nose, and magenta eyes. Rarest variant. When referring to a worm malware boi, call it a "worm malware boi".
== Behavior ==
=== General Behavior ===
Malware boiz don't usually show up the way it's shown in the infobox. That image on the infobox is an adware boi on its non-disguised form, the form they get when they're not invisible or disguised. When they're trying to infect people with their malware, they either disguise themselves as another species of boi, or become invisible. Then they show an email, popup, or whatever to attempt and infect their victims. If that doesn't work, they can just spawn malicious code to do something to the victim.
Although malware boiz do know English, they usually speak in morse code, so only fellow malware boiz can know what they say. Scientists have released morse-to-text translators long before malware boiz started to escape computers though, and since then most spinnyzoologists and scientists have a morse to text translator in their pockets, just in case they stumble upon a malware boi in its non-disguised form.
=== Variation-specific Behavior ===
Virus: Virus malware boiz add their code to programs, and when opened, these programs send more code to other programs, causing them to multiply the virus malware boiz.
Trojan: Trojan malware boiz disguise as normal programs, but when opened, they reveal their true identity as malware. Though, they don't have any unique traits other than that, so they tend to copy traits from other variants.
Adware: Adware boiz send ads to a computer, and that's about it. They aren't too much of a threat, but they can slow down computers.
Rogue Antivirus: Rogue antivirus boiz pretend to be antivirus boiz that say your computer is infected with tons of harmful malware (which don't actually exist), and won't delete it until you activate them with an activation key. There's a catch, however, and said catch is that you have to pay for the activation key. They're usually harmless and only want your money, but they can sometimes have harmful traits from other variants to annoy/scare the user into buying an activation key. When they're activated, they'll pretend to remove the "viruses", and they'll never bug the user again.
Spyware: Spyware boiz are mostly known for stealing information without consent, and things they can do include keylogging, reading cookies, and installing more spyware boiz. Some spyware boiz send ads to the computers they're on, but not all of them do that.
Ransomware: Ransomware boiz encrypt all files in a computer, and then ask for money from the user for a decryption key. Usually, their promise isn't fulfilled, and the ransomware boi's creator just runs off with the money.
Worm: Worm malware boiz copy themselves and spread from one computer to another. Like Trojan malware boiz, they don't have an unique way of harming computers, so their behavior is similar to other variations.
== Habitat ==
When Malware boiz are in their non-disguised forms, they're found sneaking in computers, laptops, phones, and other electronics. On their disguised forms, malware boiz can be anywhere. When they disguise as a non-virtual species, they also get their traits and powers, so they're nearly indistinguishable from the actual species they're disguising as. The only thing that can give a disguised malware boi away is whether you can phase through it or not. If you can, it's definitely a malware boi.
== Diet ==
Malware boiz usually eat memory, hard drive space, batteries, code of programs you don't use anymore, files on the Recycling Bin that were not recycled yet, and other random files. If your important files have disappeared out of nowhere, one of your programs stopped working because a piece of its code is missing, or your hard drive space got used up without you downloading anything, it's probably a Malware boi having a snack.
== History ==
Malware boiz have been around since the start of the internet, the first one created by a boi who wanted to scare their friends as a prank. But they only started to escape from computers in 1999. A company, which is closed down now, and was called Heck Hackers Inc. made a code for trojan malware boiz which made them become visible on-screen as a way to distract the user while they do their thing and bring the user's info back to Heck Hackers. The trojan was spread to thousands of users, but one specific user who got the trojan had a bit of programming knowledge, and decided to tweak the trojan so it wouldn't steal his info.
The programmer only realized his mistake once he put his tweaks to the test, and regretted trying to tweak that trojan deeply. Their copy of the trojan malware boi ran away, and when it found a spot with no people around, it made copies of itself. Its copies then went inside any computers with malware boiz in them that they could find, and shared the script to the malware boiz. And thus, a whole population of living computer haunters was born.
Heck Hackers was closed down because a group of malware boiz raided Heck Hackers' headquarters not too long after. All of the staff there either ran away, were killed, or turned into malware boiz after some of the malware boi copying code hit them.
== Trivia ==
* Most malware boi variants can disguise as other variants for up to 8 hours. The only variants that can't do this are the virus, adware and rogue antivirus variants.
* A group of malware boiz is called a "critical error", because you'll probably be getting a ton of critical errors if you have a group of malware boiz in your computer.
* Malware boiz can't disguise as other virtual species, unless they're Rogue Antivirus boiz. Even if they're Rogue Antivirus boiz, they can only disguise as Antivirus boiz.
Category:Fan-made
Category:Uncommon species
Category:Artificial species
Category:Virtual species