Arenamontanus wrote:

What other nasty mind viruses have you come up with?

Infinitely Recursive Goatse Diving A nanovirus which is communicated through personal contact and attempt to hack the victim's mesh inserts to produce an infinitely looping AR hallucination that the user is plummeting down an endless pit, which turns out to be a famous shock image. The fall never seems to end... Groucho, Groucho, Everywhere An mesh virus that attempts to crack the victim's mesh inserts and cause everyone the victim sees to appear to be wearing Groucho Marx Glasses. Some variants also stimulate the victim's emotive centers to cause periodic bouts of hysterical laughter to irritate everyone else. Silly Putty The victim is convinced that their face (or whatever passes for it) is actually made of Silly Putty. Every once in a while they feel compelled to reach up and re-mold their facial structure into a different abstract shape. Some variants project an AR hallucination which causes everyone else to see the results of their handiwork. The Bot's A Lemon A simply monkeywrench virus which causes the victim to think that the closest robot, synthmorph, or drone periodically makes a rattling or squeaking sound because a component is failing. Known to cause perfectionist mechanical engineers to space themselves because they cannot find the fault. Also known to cause transhumans sleeved into synthmorphs to go bankrupt because they continually pay people for useless maintenance. Cryptographic Tourette's Syndrome This malware is closer to a narrow AI than a virus as users usually think of them; the bulk of its operational code consists of intrusion and counter-detection routines which are designed to allow it to take up residence within the victim's mesh inserts. The agent then goes dormant for random, frequently lengthy periods of time. When the malware wakes up it makes an attempt to take over the victim's speech centers so that it can speak a message through the host in the form of a string of decimal or hexidecimal digits that comprise an encrypted message. At the same time, the agent attempts to provoke a seizure similiar to those sometimes experienced by people with temporal lobe epilepsy, resulting in a very surreal experience for the victim. Frequently the messages are encrypted to a single (or small pool) of public cryptographic keys in the hope that a habitat's surveillance system will record the message; many will probably see it but few will be able to decrypt it. 'Traditional' variants exist which cause the user to perform a particular dance or sing part of a song as the preamble and footer of the message; other, more unusual variants cause the victim to imitate a particular accent or voice (one notable strain called 'Peter Cottontail' is named for the character the victim sings as).