GAA Computer Virus List
The Meath Virus: Throws you out of Windows.
The Martin Lynch Virus: Computer pretends to go down, but then boots back up
and is OK.
The Kieran McDonald Virus: The lights on your PC are all on but nothing
works.
The Clare Virus: Memory forgets everything before 1995.
The Tipperary Virus Family: Look like they may cause you problems for six
months, but then fade away.
The Dessie Farrell Virus: All drive privileges lost.
The Martin McNamara Virus: You just can't save anything.
The Mayo Virus Family: Always billed as harmful, but really are nothing to
worry about.
The Graham Geraghty Virus: Your PC repeats this loop, it works brilliantly
for
20 minutes, then breaks down for 12 months.
The Mick O'Dwyer Virus: Attempts to install lots of foreign programs to
replace existing slow-running applications.
The Kerry Virus: 5 years of hard work wiped out by undetected Offaly mail.
The Waterford virus: Not due to strike for another 40 years.
The DJ Carey Virus: Your computer packs it in and costs £70,000 to be fixed.
The Colin Lynch Virus: Boots up some Waterford computers and carries on as
if nothing happened.
The Babs Keating Virus: Enters a PC, attempts to delete all existing program
and reformat hard drive; when detected and removed it generates weekly log
files citing errors in bits 8 to 15.
The John Leahy Virus: A particularly lethal Virus, users are advised to tie
down the monitor as a precaution before approaching.
The Brian Mullins virus: System takes several years to recover from crash
The John Maughan Virus: System crashes in September.
The David Forde Virus: Hasn't been seen since the 'Michael Duignan Virus
Killer' was invented.
The Michael Donnellan Virus: Attacks operating system and timekeeper and
then deletes all records of this ever occurring.
The John O'Leary Virus: Virtually impossible to rid your PC of this one.
The Ger Loughnane Virus: A continuous whining sounds emitted from speakers,
keeps generating data corruption messages, PC blows up but it won't accept
any blame.
The Marty Morrissey Virus: Spurious nonsense emitted from speakers,
uninstall all sound drivers and install Micheal O'Muircheartaigh sound files
instead to rid yourself of this one.
The Ger Canning virus: See Marty Morrissey Virus above.
The Limerick Hurling Virus: Causes problems for 65 minutes then disappears,
never to be seen again.
The Dublin Virus: Manufacturers think is a vital component of all GAA
applications but no evidence of this has yet been seen.