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rear end Technology posted:I have fonder memories of the cracked installer music more than the games (rip dusty 256 mb hard drive) Hell yeah This video goes deep into the history of tracker music, including where those keygen soundtracks come from. Worth a watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
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cadex posted:I remember playing counter strike one evening when all of a sudden the game minimised and a chat box appeared on my screen, asking how I was by name. At first I was annoyed as I was in the middle of a game then I realised that I didn't recognise the chat window or knew how the person knew my name. He then proceeded to open and close my cd tray. I poo poo a brick. But he said that he wasn't going to do anything to my computer and was just browsing infected people's computers for CP and would gently caress those up if he found it. I had a friend in highschool who would do that by scanning IP ranges for open ports with a program named shed.exe and look through computers. I tried it a few times too but would leave a note on people's desktops to get a firewall. pixaal posted:You sure it found a trojan and not a PUP? I don't know what a PUP is. 
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quote:You guys have any cool virus memories?
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Gravid Topiary posted:i have two 5 1/4" floppy discs from the late 80s stashed away, one infected with Stoned
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Owns bones, I'm too paranoid to pirate software anymore I do remember putting linux on my parent's PC to keep them out of trouble. What ended up happening was my dad learned way more about linux than I anticipated and turned him into a psuedo-nerd.
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Ever had the cops show up and ask if you downloaded the latest Harry Potter movie? Wasn't me, it was my dumbass roommate. gently caress you Steve.
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cumpantry posted:lol what do you mean 'remember'? i had a student return a chromebook six months ago that was bolstering some terrible alert that all her details were forfeit and she was hosed--virus programmers are still alive and well It was probably some bogus webpage using javascript to lock up the browser and force you to call some dude in Singapore so that he can steal your bank account info. It's not the same maaan.
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Treecko posted:Ever had the cops show up and ask if you downloaded the latest Harry Potter movie? no but ive had a few physical warning letters from watch dog groups, and one from a major telecomm lol.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I had a friend in highschool who would do that by scanning IP ranges for open ports with a program named shed.exe and look through computers. I tried it a few times too but would leave a note on people's desktops to get a firewall. lovely gimmick dps class in ffxi
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emSparkly posted:It was probably some bogus webpage using javascript to lock up the browser and force you to call some dude in Singapore so that he can steal your bank account info. It's not the same maaan. Yeah it's become kind of dumb. Hello this is Microsoft police we have found illegal word on your computer. Please buy stram gift cards to make felony go away
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I had a computer with the internet inaccessible except for the option to pay for it to be restored. And how did this software infiltrate the system? It came from a banner ad on Deviantart
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Lord Stimperor posted:Hell yeah This is really interesting. When I saw those demos I figured it was something nice to look at as the keygen installed malware on my machine.
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flubber nuts posted:no but ive had a few physical warning letters from watch dog groups, and one from a major telecomm lol. I was caught using bittorrent on the wifi at college once and they forced me to watch an instructional video on how  are very bad and sign an agreement before they would turn the connection back on in my dorm room lmao.
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Elukka posted:Back in the old days it was often just random vandalism with no particular goal. Back in the early 2000s I had either Lovsan or Sasser. They had found a way to infect random computers without the user having to do anything, and all they did was try to keep shutting down your computer because gently caress you. When I was in college, there was a virus that was spreading around via removable thumb drives which were just beginning to gain popularity. It did nothing but mark everybody's files on the drive as hidden in file explorer. I remember a university IT email going out about how to enable "show hidden files and folders" until they got rid of it. The only proper computer virus I've ever gotten came from Windows Media player on Windows ME. It had a radio station function where you could listen to streaming radio stations and one of the stations that was available by default gave me a virus. It was a cool red screen of death sort of thing with a big yellow loading bar that did nothing and very angry text. I don't remember much of what it did but that was probably the last time I actually used Windows Media player before discovering Winamp. Luxrage fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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emSparkly posted:I was caught using bittorrent on the wifi at college once and they forced me to watch an instructional video on how thats badass. im going to find a copy of that instructional video and pay real money for it.
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emSparkly posted:I was caught using bittorrent on the wifi at college once and they forced me to watch an instructional video on how In our dorm you could share folders to everyone on the network and it was just a free for all of
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one time i got some real lovely "ransomware" on my phone that claimed to have encrypted all my poo poo but i just booted in safe mode, deleted it, and wow, none of my poo poo was encrypted
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the virus….is u
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Check out danooct1's YouTube page. The guy tests out viruses on virtual and occasionally physical machines. Very cool to see some of these old viruses completely wreck a computer.
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they were right I did want to cry  best therapist I ever had
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1secondpersecond posted:Good news, your parents' computer is still chock full of viruses! They're just less inclined to impede daily function and more likely to be connected to an op of the Russian, US, or Chinese state where they participate in DDOS attacks against external assets or send spam emails without substantially degrading performance so that nobody notices the device isn't working correctly. A fair compromise!
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One of my favorite weird virus stories isn't necessarily a weird virus but it's the concept of Cheapie Characters for Fighting Game maker MUGEN. That link explains it better than I can, but the short version is what started out as players competing to make the most overpowered, unbeatable MUGEN character imaginable, culminated in The Cheap War where people figured out how to make characters so strong that they executed arbitrary code and destroyed computers. quote:The Cheap War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPVPP1ECko
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I don't remember the details but when I was a kid there was supposedly some virus that only activated on a specific day of the year and the playground wisdom was to not turn on your computer on that day to be safe. Anybody know what I'm talking about?
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A Strange Aeon posted:I don't remember the details but when I was a kid there was supposedly some virus that only activated on a specific day of the year and the playground wisdom was to not turn on your computer on that day to be safe. thats like EVERY virus from the 2000s
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cumpantry posted:thats like EVERY virus from the 2000s While many didn't activate until a certain date that was the turn on so it wouldn't get picked up it still worked after and were rarely found out before the date in question. There were plenty of news hoax virus stories around the same time and probably what they are talking about. I remember my mom freaking out about a news story about a debug exe in the windows folder being a virus so yeah everyone has it (and it's not a virus) deleting it was harmless but I sure as gently caress did being a kid and trusting the news / my parents to vet this poo poo.
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At work in the mid 2000s I once got a virus/trojan that replaced the Windows authentication mechanism with itself, so it got access to whatever password you entered even if you changed it, could interact with your office's NT domain and was loaded whenever you were logged in, it was actually very impressive. It had various helper processes that made sure if you stopped one it'd grab the other and was really sticky in general. I got it by visiting a bigfoot/cryptozoology news website, it got in through some kind of exploit in IE via the website's banner ad network showing a rogue advert containing the thing.
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MrQwerty posted:I'm pretty sure "Bonzi Buddy" is a safe program Our students installed it on every computer in the computer lab...
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And yet you avoided irradiating them to sterility? You'll be held to trial for that.
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I wasn't in charge of the computer lab. They guy who was wanted to nail their skins to the door as a warning.
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In high school a buddy got obsessed with Shogun: Total War but didn’t own it, & his solution was to install whatever shady torrent software was popular in the early 2000s on any friend’s computer he could touch then to download the game (which took hours) and try to veto any plans to leave and do anything that didn’t involve him staying at the computer. Got lucky we had an iMac that wouldn’t work for his scheme as he was bad about asking permission or caring what files he was getting and he bricked at least one family’s PC.
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I was lucky enough to spend a bunch of the 90's in Hong Kong, going to the golden plaza which was the hub of physical piracy back then. Would just go and buy all these cd's of random collections of games and pornography for a couple of bucks and so many of those CD's had awful viruses on them. Spent so much time reinstalling and recovering that system so I could play the most random roms. Anyway, it was basically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVtkiC8JFLw
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Charles Ford posted:I got it by visiting a bigfoot/cryptozoology news website, it got in through some kind of exploit in IE via the website's banner ad network showing a rogue advert containing the thing. Obviously intentionally made by bigfoot society in an attempt to stop people from learning the truth about them. As people still don't know obviously once again they succeeded.
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deep dish peat moss posted:One of my favorite weird virus stories isn't necessarily a weird virus but it's the concept of Cheapie Characters for Fighting Game maker MUGEN. That link explains it better than I can, but the short version is what started out as players competing to make the most overpowered, unbeatable MUGEN character imaginable, culminated in The Cheap War where people figured out how to make characters so strong that they executed arbitrary code and destroyed computers. lmao I've played a decent bit of MUGEN and used to watch salty bet, but this is the first I've heard of this and it's really loving funny
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I ran the full version Mac OS mountain lion on a computer with no RAM at all in a 256k processor cache stage for 2 days with a functioning internet browser until it got cold enough to physically freeze.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:When I was in high school I went on one of the shared computers and checked my school email. I got an email from one of my teachers that said "I love you" in the subject. I was confused, so I opened it and clicked on the attachment and lol the entire network got nuked as everyone else clicked on the attachment from random teachers as well Was this a Flash .exe around 2004? Around that time, one of the chapters of the nonprofit I worked for just launched a basic Flash advertising for a fundraising bike tour at around the same time I was developing one. All of the higher ups of the organization knew what Flash was so when they saw "I love you" in the subject + the Flash icon they thought it was another advertising thing to see and clicked on it blasting it out.
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iloveyou was a really widely spread email worm that blew up in 2000. Seth probably got that one.
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that pink "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" thing that spammed your screen and made everything unusable until you restarted is my biggest nostalgia trip for the early 00s internet
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pencilhands posted:that pink "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" thing that spammed your screen and made everything unusable until you restarted is my biggest nostalgia trip for the early 00s internet I can hear it even after like 20 years
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