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New virus?

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shvarz:
I had a surge of virus infections in Alga minimalis this morning. Since the internet mode is supposedly not working, then I could not get it from some other sim. The virus is absolutely rampant, it reached over 300 copies in Alga and it killed off all of bots that were in my sim (Flypaper, Lionfish, Anemone and others).

I am just curious whether this virus appeared on its own or was designed by someone.  Here is a representative copy:

start
 *.thisgene 335 *.tie sgn 1 sub abs mult inc
 *.nrg 100 div 338 *.vtimer sgn 1 sub abs mult store
 0 7 *.in3 sgn 1 sub abs mult store
 stop

Numsgil:
That definately looks artificial.  No idea who the culprit is though

Elite:
Heh, there's a chance it might be one of mine, the coding looks slightly familiar and there's loads out there.

If it is though, it's mutated beyond my recognition. That third line looks totally mulched.

EDIT: Started up IM, and the first thing that comes in is an enormous clump of infected alga from shvarz. Damn, those things are nasty. I shudder to think what else is out there, especially with mutated strains and such. Looks like some sort of antivirus is mandatory from now on:

cond
*.mkvirus 0 !=
start
*.mkvirus .delgene store
stop

Numsgil:
The third line looks like it clears out one of the early sysvars, probably .shoot.  I'll bet there was some "don't attack me" conspec recognition short circuit in it, but it mutated out to attack the originator.  Reminds me of some sort of scifi apocalypse.  The bio-weapon engineered to eliminate everyone of a different race from you mutates to attack you too, and everyone dies

MacadamiaNuts:
That's from an older Lionfish 5, totally. I see only two mutations. *.tie was *.vtimer and inc, store. I tried several virus ideas one week ago and dropped that one. It's bugged also, as it should have had .out3 instead of .in3.

But, well, it has spread.  

That's actually why I dropped it for the final LF5. Uncontrolled virus are a pest, even worse if they include the .mkvirus and .vshoot.  

Current LF5 looks like this:


--- Code: ---cond
*.robage 2 >
start
50 .repro *.body 100 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.out3 *.myeye sub sgn abs mult store
10 .strbody *.nrg 500 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.out3 *.myeye sub sgn abs mult store
*.thisgene 1 add .delgene *.out3 *.myeye sub sgn abs mult store
*.thisgene .delgene *.thisgene 3 sub sgn 0 floor mult 1 rnd mult store
stop
--- End code ---

I dunno if there are any still around.

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