SOMETHING VERY STRANGE is happening to the computers in UCD computer rooms.

It’s this:

GUYS I'M TRYING TO CHECK MY EMAIL ON THE UCD COMPUTERS AND EVERY PICTURE IS OF NICHOLAS CAGE — Fridget Jones (@blelleher) March 25, 2014 Source: Blare /Twitter

And it does not seem to be an isolated case:

Using a computer in UCD & there appears to be some sort of virus changing every picture to a picture of Nicholas Cage pic.twitter.com/lH8aAJxmIG — Richard Looby (@RichardLooby) March 26, 2014 Source: Richard Looby /Twitter

Well looks like the UCD website has been hacked and everything replaces with pictures if Nicholas cage....#tooearly pic.twitter.com/2ealjwnSyA — Louise Ní Challáin (@LouCallan) March 26, 2014 Source: Louise Callan /Twitter

So what is causing this mass outbreak of Nicolas Cage’s face all over UCD?

Well, there are a number of handy browser extensions that will replace every image with the Face of Cage, like Cageify and nCage.

Perhaps the oddest thing is, this isn’t even an isolated incident.

According to Twitter, it happened on March 3:

And on February 27:

I tried to use a UCD computer and every image was replaced with Nicholas Cage OMFG — patchy (@patchaaay) February 27, 2014 Source: Patoche /Twitter

Who is behind this outbreak? Is it just the one computer affected, or are many machines falling under the spell of Cage? HAVE YOU WITNESSED THIS?

Please get in touch – tweet us @dailyedge or email tips@dailyedge.ie. We must get to the bottom of this.

Source: Kit