This article is from the Computer viruses FAQ, by David Harley D.Harley@icrf.icnet.uk, George Wenzel gwenzel@telusplanet.net and Bruce Burrell bpb@umich.edu with numerous contributions by others.
This is an allegedly humorous bit of javascript programming that found
its way onto a website. On clicking on a particular button, you may be
told that this virus has been detected.Javascript has many interesting
properties, but virus detection is not one of them. It was a joke,
and it's long gone, though others like it pop up from time to time.
 
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