Iconian software transmission

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The Iconian software transmission was an information transfer developed by the ancient Iconian civilization. The software uses a small probe that downloads a program into the target's computer system. Once there, the program begins rewriting the software of the destination computer. If the recipient is not Iconian, it begins to cause malfunctions, eventually reaching catastrophic systems failure. The purpose of this transmission was never discovered.

The program can be purged from a computer by shutting down all ship's systems, erasing the infected areas, and then rebooting from a computer core's protected memory.