he's not asking about the ritual... he wants to know if it's a virus or software..
HARAKIRI VIRUS
The Harakiri Virus is a computer virus written in Pascal, which infects .COM and .EXE files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation, corrupts program files. After infecting a program, the virus displays the message: Your PC is alive and infected with the HARAKIRI virus!
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