Lovely. Just lovely. Apparently there are computer viruses aboard the International Space Station — and one of them might have come from a video game.

The virus in question is named Gammima.AG and is a low-level worm designed to sweep up personal information from users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, according to SpaceRef.com, which broke the story. Virus hunters last year discovered the worm working in conjunction with the two-dimensional MMORPG called “MapleStory,” a monster-mashing and social-networking tool whose estimated 87 million player-members are mainly in Europe and Asia.

Gammima got into orbit aboard laptop computers that service the station, and though NASA hasn’t offered up much detail the worm has a history of traveling via removable storage media, such as USB memory sticks. The ISS isn’t connected to the Internet — just imagine the length of the coax cable you’d need for that — but there is an intranet that would allow Gammima’s spread to other computers. So, for now, the game-induced worm is more of a hassle than a hazard. (Supposedly, none of the ISS computers have antivirus protection.)

But the infection does make one wonder what kind of things the astronauts are doing during their free time with the company equipment.