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It's amazing that there are still those who claim that this is a religion. It sounds more like mass insanity.
It has all the hallmarks of a software virus.
1) It corrupts the Operating System
2) It is designed to maliciously propagate.
3) It is designed to interfere with removal programs.
Maybe a new term could be used: "Wetware Virus".
It would have been invented by Nature, but rabies is caused by a prion, I think, not a virus.