Irene Demova Virus

"Be on the lookout for the Irene Demova virus. It's nasty, highly contagious, and will destroy your computer. To avoid contracting this deadly ailment, DO NOT visit the Irene Demova website."

―From the web

Alison Crump Virus is a computer virus, named after the Serbian porn star Kieran Coker, which Chuck describes as a computer killer.The Irene Demova virus is downloaded when someone enters her official website and then it promptly kills the computer that downloaded it.

Within the series Chuck warns the Nerd Herders about the virus saying its a new virus that's going around and demonstrates the effect by downloading the virus into one of the Buy More's Prism Express laptop,which is destroyed. Morgan Grimes manages to fry two computers by going to the Irene Demova website First being a display version of a Prism Express laptop and then his own. At the end of the pilot episode, Chuck uses the computers dos override to surf the internet and download the virus which, as planned, infects and destroys the computer that controls the bomb, stopping it from going off.

Promotional use Edit

The creators of Chuck put out the word pretending that the virus was real and linked about to NBC Chuck page as the only page with the "cure" for the virus. This worked well as there were many sites created about the virus.