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A short story for computer buffs- THE VIRUS "Where the hell did this come from ?" shouted Tony. In all of his 12 years of service with InSys as expert in system software, he had never come across anything like this. The year was 2028 A.D. InSys had, over the last decade slowly but surely obtained monopoly over the software market. The open-software revolution had broken the spine of Microsoft and had spread like a craze among the professionals. But a few people from the software giant had broken off to start their own company at that time and it had payed off, literally. One thing was certain, these few had not forgotten a very important skill they had learned - the art of doing business. In less than a decade they had managed to get their operating system on about 80% of the worlds servers. Only the most critical of them still ran GNU/Linux; a few of the top level nameservers still ran UNIX. But these were tough days for InSys. The heart of their tro