A plague called Prilissa
There was a time when humans became too ambitious and decided to build a tower tall enough to reach heaven. The idea was to do away with God when they reached there. God, however, struck back in a very strange manner. Rather than hurl a bolt of lightning into the midst of His enemies, He cast a spell upon them and humans lost the ability to communicate with each other. This breakdown in communication between humans was the beginning of different languages and dialects. It was also the end of a civilisation.
Today, we have built another such tower, rather an electronic network which facilitates rapid transfer of information over great distances. This network is linked to home and office computers that run the engine of our civilisation. Our ability to communicate with each other depends on this fragile, electronic Tower of Babel. Those who mess around with it are neither God nor angels. They could be called minions of the devil.
The computer virus, a programme that plagues emails and causes computer memories to fail is the gift of these minions to civilisation. It threatens to tear apart the very fabric on which our communication structure rests. The latest is a variant of the Melissa virus that hit computers early this year. This new virus