User:Burgerboy300/Infected Virus

The Infected Virus is a virus rumored to have been created by a ROBLOX user which changes the name of every object in a place to "Infected", and is distributed by hooking itself onto ROBLOX models which can then be uploaded to ROBLOX and taken by other ROBLOX users.

The effect of this virus may not appear to have a negative effect on a place due to the fact that its only apparent effect is renaming all items within a place, therefore not appearing to actually having any real effect - however, it is known to do a lot more damage than one would usually expect. Scripts tend to rely on specific names of objects in order to find a certain object, however the Infected script blocks this functionality by changing the name of an object so that it cannot be found as specified by the script, and as such the script will return an error and will not continue to work. For example, a script (for reference we'll call it NameScript) may contain a path leading to an object named "Bob" which is located in the workspace, however if the Infected script is within the place, that specific object will be renamed "Infected" and as such will no longer allow the NameScript to function.

In order to combat the Infected Virus, many players have taken it upon themselves to create scripts that combat the Infected virus; however the majority of these scripts search for viruses based on name and as such can be generally considered useless, as the Infected virus as found in the place can take on many different variations in terms of name. Other anti-virus scripts search for viruses based on script code, however these can backfire sometimes and end up deleting scripts that are not actually Infected viruses.

Variations on Infected scripts are commonly made, and as such the ROBLOX community has decided that two criteria are to be filled by a script in order for that script to be considered an Infected Virus.


 * The script must perform a repetitive action, i.e. renaming all objects within the game, or coloring all objects within the game.
 * The script must continually clone itself into other objects.

1x1x1x1 Rumour
Many players on ROBLOX believe 1x1x1x1, a rumour about an exploiter, had created the Infected virus; many people have posted videos on Youtube to prove this, but this rumour has not been confirmed, despite many attempts to do so.

Vortex Security Fort Vortex Version 2 "Infected Virus" Brick
Sometime in late August, 2011, a Infected Virus brick had been inserted into a server, causing a complete shutdown. It was called, the "Stupid Annoying brick" (Roughly).

It caused all bricks in the fort to be covered in an Epic Face decal. And played random dog barks, cat meows, and cow moos, often causing confusion, and mass evacuation. It's identical to a Human virus, basically the brick hijacks the server's script. Only exploiters can insert bricks.