User blog comment:NebulousViper/Anyone else noticing on DA?/@comment-24552397-20140601032336/@comment-35301431-20140602163058

@Dizzyzebra

There is indeed a 'virus', or rather people out there who create scripts that will highjack deviantART accounts and use them as "spam bots". Though largely it is for advertising. These scripts target existing accounts because it looks more legitimate by the age of the account and how many Followers are present.

Besides that I doubt a virus was the reason for a journal entry and two specific artworks to be removed. There is no reason for the artist to be upset enough to remove her work; as stated it is a neat design and if she won why remove it from her gallery?. She just needs to acknowledge that the base of the design was traced and give proper credit.