A Cron-Virus is a powerful virus capable of destroying the entire Net. The only one ever encountered is Daemon.
The virus will infect the Net and begin a count down. Everyone infected by them will start calling out numbers. When they reach zero everything is deleted.
"101. 100. 11. 10. 01. 0." (5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0)
References
- The word Cron simply means Count.
- Cron is a shortening of the word Chronological, a term used to mean the order that things come in a time line.
- In a Unix system, the cron daemon runs regularly scheduled tasks, such as renaming log files and running accounting.
- 111100 = 60, 111011 = 59, ..., 101=5, 100=4, 11=3, 10=2, 01=1, 0=0.
- According to Bob's words, a Cron Virus has the power to delete everything in the Net, even viruses.
- According to Bob, he managed to identify Daemon as a Cron virus before starting the countdown.
- This is because she identified The Word as "Cron"
- It is unknown how he knew of the existence of this kind of virus or if it was because of the actions of Daemon.
- Due his time at the academy as well as his obsession with Virus reform, Bob most likely was trained to identify Viruses.
- Cron viruses do not exist, but would be devastating if they did.