I've never seen a virus written for the Intel or Windows hardware and

OS run on an Amiga or Mac
Do Office macro viruses count?

Nope.

I doubt very seriously that there is any compatability in the two computer

systems, making any virus meaningless noise.

That reminds me of jokes about ID4.
Maybe, maybe not. I've read speculation that it is possible to create viruses
that consists of instructions for a processor. These instructions would be
impossible to finish yet be written in a way to disguise that fact from the
processor. The result: the processor executes the instructions and keeps
executing them, not knowing that the effort is futile. Dead processor.
Written in sufficiently high-level code, this kind of virus is platform
independent.

Actually on a normal (non Windows) operating system this would be detected
and the process would be killed in a matter of moments - unless the
hardware (i.e. the processor) is buggy (like the pentium F00F bug).

If the Abh computer systems came with universal translators (like every
one else's) they might even be able to traslate such a set of instructions
from plain Japanese into Abh computer code and then execute them- all
faster than its users can comprehend what has happened!
The biggest shortcoming of such a virus I can see is that it has no routine
for damaging stored memory, those are hardware specific. All a victim
would have to do is flush the system's active memory and the virus is gone.

If this were indeed possible, then this would have happened a long time
before Lafiel and Jinto come to Earth, and countermeasures would have been
introduced.

MaZe.


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