Effect
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| Description | This degenerate virus used to be an advertising program from OmniTech, but seems to have exceeded their expectations. On the bright side, the actual advertising payload has expired, so now you just get a periodic burst of distracting static. |
| Effects | -2 Perception -2 Code Finesse |
Source
Using Viral Code (25 energy)
Fighting The Virus (10 or 20 energy - see opponent page for tools)
Interacting with an infected site without any Hardening if you don't already have energy of this effect active (20 energy)
A distracting crack of static echoes from your computer's speakers.
While hacking an infected site or following a data stream, sometimes. A site is infected when this message appears while accessing the site.
Staccato bursts of static echo from your computer's speakers, making the site sound like it's at the center of a gunfight. It almost manages to drown out the complex stream of data, flowing beneath the surface.
or
Maddening bursts of static echo from your computer's speakers, accompanied by strange hitches and stutters in the visual. It almost manages to drown out the complex stream of data, flowing beneath the surface.