#system badware

Badware Flag

Badware are alters in a system that act similarly or exactly like malware in computer systems. This can include behaviors like infection, spreading, causing system “bugs” and crashes, etc- but what exactly constitutes a “Badware” will obviously differ system to system.

You may ask me questions about Badware behaviors if you’d like because I don’t wanna write it all down here.

^just to see which people like more.

Firewall

Not exactly Badware/Grayware but uh…. Adjacent?

A Firewall could be considered a form of gatekeeper, Firewalls monitor traffic between headspace and front, as well as between sisasystems. This is to prevent Badwares, Graywares, and Infected Alters/Fragments from being able to travel between sisasystems or to front.

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Trojan/Trojan Horse

a kind of Badware which pretends in some way to not be a Badware. Trojan Badwares can be any kind of Badware, like Virus’, Worms, etc.

RAT/Remote Access Trojan

Another way to say a Badware is both a Trojan Badware and a Backdoor Badware.

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Backdoor

a type of Badware in a system that allows someone access to parts of the system they shouldn’t have access to, including alters themselves, through the use of the backdoor. This someone can be another alter or someone outside of the system.

what the person can do with the Backdoor depends on what the backdoor itself is capable of doing. So it differs between backdoors and systems.

Backdoors can be other kinds of Badware as well.

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Elk Cloner Badware

A kind of Virus Badware which acts as a Badware for fun (for themself at least). Infections by this kind of Badware is usually nondestructive, with the Badware just messing with those it has infected. However, it can accidentally “overwrite” the personality of fragments or alters with “less” of an identity.

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Govware

A kind of Spyware, the kind of which can be considered either Badware or Grayware, which is either “employed” by or part of some sort of central authority within the system to spy on other alters and send that data directly to them. The authority can also be outside the system, in the case of knowledgeable abusers, RAMCOA, and/or OEA.

Policeware

Similar to govware, policeware is also employed by a higher authority within the system. Policeware, however, are never a part of the authority themselves and usually only spy within certain assigned areas of the system. They can be considered a lower level of authority under Govware.

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Physical Badware

Any kind of Badware which affects the system physically. This can include: Causing Somatic symptoms and physical pain (usually via triggering dissociation or trauma), worsening dissociation, affecting the bodies sleep schedule, and affecting food intake and body hygiene. These aren’t the only physical symptoms Physical Badware can cause and are just provided examples.

sorry for taking so long :(! We couldn’t find a good name for this one which is why it’s just called Physical Badware- We don’t know of any kind of malware that affects system hardware (which would be the closest comparison to the physical body I believe) other than Hardware Trojans which are built into the Hardware itself. But we hope the flag is nice :D!! We have a few things lined up that would fall under this term so that’s good :3 ~<3

-LOVEBUG

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Spyware

a kind of Grayware which, of course, spies on what the system is doing and steals the information. Now, the reasoning the Spyware is doing this can vary from Malicious or Harmful, to Neutral, to Beneficial. So here are examples for each:

Malicious or Harmful: The Spyware wants to give this data to random people or the abuser

Neutral: The Spyware just wants to know and collect this information, for no harm nor benefit.

Beneficial: The Spyware wants to be able to use the information to protect the system from potentially unknown triggers or harmful information they may encounter, or prevent alters that aren’t supposed to access certain information by spying on them. Etc.

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