I believe that the technical term for programs like those described is "virus" ...

Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy. Record companies are financing the development of software that would sabotage the computers of people that download pirated music. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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This is for those who look curiously at me whan I try to explain why Mozilla is so much better than IE ....

HTML Rendering Crashes IE [Slashdot]
10:20:42 AM     comment []

An altogether too true commentary:

Poetry is Dead. Does Anybody Care?. [Newsweek (via MSNBC)].
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