Self-Spreading Code
rating: 0+x

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Personnel assigned to SCP-XXXX are to monitor any website assigned to the group they have been put into. Group XXXX-A are to monitor social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Group XXXX-B are to monitor any video-sharing/streaming service such as YouTube and Twitch. Group XXXX-C are to find, investigate, and terminate any website created by SCP-XXXX, as well as any other miscellaneous websites.

Groups are to use special computers built by the Foundation which censor any instance of SCP-XXXX on the monitor. Any findings of SCP-XXXX are to be recorded and deleted off the web immediately. Failure to do so may result in a 6-month suspension period of being involved in the containment of the code. Such as with any anomaly with a threat of being exposed to the public, any news reporting on a sighting are to be silenced by any means necessary. The sharing of SCP-XXXX is completely prohibited and will result in job revocation to termination depending on how drastic the breach is.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a unique line of computer code that belongs to no found programming language as of ██/██/████. Any person to look at the code on a computer, phone, or tablet screen immediately becomes obsessed with "finishing" the program the code belongs to, resulting in the user completely avoiding important tasks and even actions humans need to survive such as eating or sleeping. Properties also take effect when looking at an online image of the code written on a real-life object. The only found way of taking away the effects of SCP-XXXX from a person is to forcefully make them take any class amnestic. Forcing someone under the effect of SCP-XXXX to go off the computer including methods of destroying the machine used and simply moving the subject away from the screen will result in the subject going braindead. Another anomalous property of the code includes the ability to completely work within any known programming language including C#, Java, Python, and special Foundation-made programming language "SecureCode", even if it wouldn't normally work within the language itself.

Groups XXXX-A through XXXX-C have been organized to deal with the aspect of the code which makes containment most difficult; the ability to spread throughout the World Wide Web on its own. Though it is accepted that SCP-XXXX spreads by itself, it is also speculated among staff that there is a hidden group of people who are intentionally spreading it, though there has been minimal evidence to support this. Instances of the code have appeared on social media posts, videos, livestreams, and other random websites. SCP-XXXX also spreads by making its own websites, which usually have minimal design containing just the code and sometimes a few random images, though there seem to be no correlation between any image on any website created by SCP-XXXX. The URLs of the sites have always been found to be random scrambles of characters. It is currently unknown if there are any hidden messages within the URLs as no one at the Foundation has been able to decrypt anything either because it is highly encrypted or because there is nothing there at all. Though the creation of these websites are anomalous, the websites themselves are not and are written in standard HTML format.

First known instance of SCP-XXXX was found through a news reporting on a local TV station in North Carolina of a man who died of dehydration while using his computer. The anomaly itself didn't come into the Foundations view until a supposed member of Gamers Against Weed was found dead in his apartment while using SecureCode under the effects of SCP-XXXX. The very first instance of SCP-XXXX was found on GitHub by user ███████ on ██/██/████. During the initial discovery from the Foundation, 6 staff members died from the anomalous effects. It was immediately made apparent that reading SCP-XXXX caused the dangerous effects, though a person simply having it in their field of view does not result in them. Since the discovery, there have been ████ found instances of SCP-XXXX and ███ reported deaths caused by it. It is still unknown whether the program trying to be made using SCP-XXXX is infinite, or simply unfinishable.