R.A.B.I.D.S.

Roving Autonomous Bartmoss Interface Drones, or R.A.B.I.D.S., are extremely powerful viruses created by Rache Bartmoss that were responsible for destroying the Old Net during the DataKrash.

Overview
The R.A.B.I.D.S. are a form of powerful computer virus created by Rache Bartmoss with the goal to, upon his death, breach all corporate Datafortresses and share their data online for all to see. When Bartmoss was killed by corporate agents, the R.A.B.I.D.S. triggered. Having greatly exceeded their original programming parameters, they began to wreak havoc across the Net, infecting 78.2% of the Net and triggering Artificial Intelligences to mutate and go rogue. The viruses were so powerful that NetWatch was unable to destroy them, so the only way for the Net to survive was to lock a large portion of it behind a powerful Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics called the Blackwall.