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🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Malicious Life I'm Ren Levy. Just as his company was finishing their shiny new products logo, a white syringe with a computer background, |
0:32.0 | or fell Achitouve saw an article about the Jerusalem |
0:35.0 | virus in a national newspaper. |
0:37.6 | The article laid special emphasis on the activation date of the virus, Friday the 13th, which would next come around in about half a year's time, May 1988. Offer knew that he could delay no longer, and he came up with an ingenious plan to get his |
0:54.6 | product's name out quickly. Ofer approached a technology journalist from a |
0:59.9 | competing newspaper telling him that Iris had a solution to defeat the Jerusalem virus. |
1:06.0 | Offers Bette was that by pitting, competing newspapers against each other, |
1:11.0 | his name would get more attention. |
1:14.0 | And he was right. |
1:15.0 | The competing paper published his story on the back page of their weekend edition. |
1:20.0 | It was the best advertisement Iris could have hoped for free of charge. |
1:24.7 | Their small team was about to become flooded. |
1:29.6 | Iris went into a frenzy. |
1:31.9 | With only three people on the payroll, Offer had to get creative. |
1:36.5 | He and his programmer worked on their software, which was almost but not quite ready yet, well into the night, while Offer's wife, his mother, and his |
1:46.2 | daughter copied it to disk as quickly as they could. |
1:50.1 | On the floor of the home that O just months before was considering taking a second |
1:55.2 | mortgage out due to the lack of business. |
1:58.6 | He and his family spent the whole weekend coding, copying, printing and inserting pages with the company logo on it into the outer pockets of the disk govers. |
2:08.8 | In some cases, the printed paper was so fresh that customers would receive their Irish logos with smeared ink. |
2:18.0 | All the while the Irish company phone did not stop ringing. |
2:22.0 | The news stories created alarm for computer owners |
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