Lonely warriors step over the remains of their fallen brethren.

Skeletons lie in the streets in such numbers that one can hardly see the ground underneath.

The infected spew blood in every direction.

Only the very strongest remain alive

in the barren ruins of once thriving major city centers.

Cries of OMFG, stop it, what is going on, and my jimmies are rustled, echoed through the empty

streets.

Thousands upon thousands of innocent are guided towards the light of their main menu screens.

Hi, I'm Ran Levy. For three seasons of malicious live podcast, I've taken you through some

of the most significant computer hacks in history. The world's biggest company taken down, a presidential election

compromised, a nuclear power plant gone haywire. They've been evil forces at

play and ultimately good ones. Criminals caught and many more still on the loose today.

The common thread of course is malware, malicious software or a computer program specifically written to cause damage.

In today's episode, we're switching things up a bit.

The subject of today's episode is a kind of malware I suppose it is technically a software that

caused a sort of harm to many thousands of people around the world. It wasn't

however meant to do what it did.

Really what I'm talking about is accidental malware, or in technical terms, a bug.

But not just any bug, a computer bug whose legacy lives on today in the field of, you

guessed it, epidemiology. The story you're about here has as much to do with Ebola and leprosy as it does to Windows and C++.

We begin in a dungeon.

Within the heart of Zul Groub lies the powerful demon Hakar, with a red face of a dragon and a

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