AF417

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AF417 is a hoax computer virus that changes a users keyboard setting from the standard Qwerty keyboard to the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.

The two common keyboard layouts: Dvorak and Qwerty.

AF417 is considered a hoax virus because it is not actually a computer virus. In reality, the agent which causes the keyboard change is your younger daughter, acting at the request of her aunt (whose oldest and youngest sons played the same prank on her earlier). The virus' name stands for April Fools 4/1/07. To correct this virus, call up your older sister and yell at her for corrupting your perfectly innocent daughter who would never do anything like this on her own.

The idea for this virus was spawned from the BBC website, where it states that "[c]hanging the keyboard settings to use the 'Dvorak' layout is also a good prank. Most people don't know that the keyboard layouts can be switched at all, and the only keys that are common between the Dvorak and standard 'Qwerty' layout are 'a' and 'm', so people spend a lot of time typing gibberish and running virus-checks."[1]

  1. ^ British Broadcasting Company, "Great April Fool's Jokes and Tricks." March 29, 2001.http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A517240 (accessed March 27, 2007).
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