This is kinda difficult - even if you manage to infect (via some kind of program trade, possibly), you probably won't have a way of directly interacting with the infected computer, so you would have to send instructions using the infected ships sensors... By moving your ship in his vision range for example, and decoding the movement with the virus for the instructions. That could take forever for any kind of direct control.
Heh, that's interesting, but I think the simpler vector will be the more common one - Think like a griefer, if you will.
People will just infect useful scripts and let consumers copy/distribute them.
Thats it.
I know griefers - and they will find a way to abuse the crap out of this.
Honestly I'm not saying anything, but this entire mmo idea is just plain bad. If anyone other than notch had come up with it, it would have been shot down at t(-1).
