NEW.FRIEND.EXE

Alex is a boy, or rather a girl with internalized misogyny. He has light brown unwashed hair, brown eyes and a thin build. He does not want to talk about the fact that he is a girl, so he introduces himself to everyone as Alex and lives like that. Alex is the same nerd-sociopath of the 2000s. He looked unkempt, with acne, overgrown hair and bags under his eyes. Alex is only 16 years old and he is quite depressed. He lives with his parents and uses a second computer (it is very difficult to ask his parents to buy a new one after the first computer was broken by the ILOVEYOU virus). Alex began to get interested in computer science and programming, so he understood some things about viruses and programs. Oh, how scared he was the first time when the ILOVEYOU virus started sending him messages with photos of corpses, and then broke his computer. Alex lived in the distant 2000s, the Internet was just gaining more advanced capabilities and therefore most teenagers were not protected from viruses or pedofiles. Alex had a Windows 7 computer. His desktop was littered with energy drink cans and empty cigarette packs. Textbooks, papers. Alex liked to write from a stupid person. He was a user of Newgrounds and other popular sites.

NEW.FRIEND.EXE is a virus that "accidentally" got into Alex's computer when he was downloading porn. Alex opened the virus and a little man appeared on his screen. It was a small man who walked around the screen and wrote some messages to Alex, which were displayed on the screen. He looked like a boy with white skin, white grown-out hair and white round eyes. The little man introduced himself as a "new friend" and asked what he wanted Alex to call him. At first, he just walked around Alex's screen, saying something like: "Let's get to know each other better?", "I love you!", "I feel good here." These messages were clearly intended to evoke pleasant feelings in the owner of the computer. But as soon as 5 minutes pass, the computer starts to lag, and then strange messages begin to arrive in the mail with the inscription: "Let's be friends?" and inside there were photos of dead kittens, small bloody carcasses. After a long time, the little man begins to behave strangely. It turns on sounds and music at any time, which cannot be adjusted. Then, it will start to "get angry" and send messages: "I fucked your mother, bitch", "Your computer is heating up!", "Go to hell". But how surprising, Alex will be able to contact it and make it less harmful. The little man will become kinder and will start living in Alex's computer, no longer using his data, but being able to open applications. It will walk on the screen, watching Alex play and communicating with him.
This virus has met other viruses and surprisingly it has friends among them. For example, viruses - ILOVEYOU and Melissa. It turns out that viruses have their own feelings and thoughts? The little man does not explain how this works.

He has known the ILOVEYOU virus for a long time and even adopted from it the habit of sending photos of corpses under cute messages. The ILOVEYOU virus was considered one of the most dangerous and disgusting in its time. ILOVEYOU sent messages: "I love you!", and in them there were many photos of corpses. And then the virus destroyed the entire computer. But the little man talks about ILOVEYOU as a nice guy, even as a good bro.
Melissa was a virus a little crazy, he liked to take over computers very quickly and hack them. In his body it was shown that he contained adult files, but it was a decoy.
The little man is familiar with other viruses, even from Russia, for example Agent.