Virus/Comp. Screw-up stories - BREKKING NEWZ - BADSPOT VIRUS FOUND

[Steve5452]

Oh okay, carry on.

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[Electrk]

forget you guys

[Decepticon]

The first major virus I remember getting was around 2008. I had the v9 demo of Blockland and I tried to pirate the full version (lol). I searched something like "Blockland full version download" and found myself at a website that just had "Blockland.exe" in bold blue text with a thin border around it (very legit). I download it and ran it.

A command prompt-looking thing came up and said "1 file(s) copied so far... 2 file(s) copied so far...". This can't be good. My computer's background changes to a blue background that said something like "Your computer has been infected!" The clock changes to military time with "VIRUS ALERT!" next to it. Panicking, I press the button on the power strip that my computer was plugged in to but it was too late: it was infected. I cried and told my mom. My parents sent it to a computer repair shop to get rid of the virus. It costed us stufflods of emone and I think it still had some virus on it or something.

Whenever I would get mad at my computer, I would either hit it (mouse, keyboard, screen, tower, whatever) or turn the switch on the power strip on and off very fast.

I was not very computer-savvy back then...

jesus, i don't know if I already quoted this but my god.
I was, and still am a legal-brat, and by that I mean I will do things to stay completely legal (For example, uninstalling WinRAR after it's trial is over), so I never faced piracy/whatever scams
One time though, xXHerobrineXx tried to convince me to pirate GTA IV/whatever, but I kept refusing him and eventually blocked him, and I see piracy as major disrespect, but back on-topic, I feel sorry that you went thr-

forget you guys

;-;

[Lando The Climber²]

I remember when i was like 4 we had Crystal Caves on Windows 98 () And I accidentally right-clicked and it came up and I saw rename, I was really young so all i really understood was name and I thought it was asking for my name so I clicked it and typed Andrew, I decided that I needed to do this with every file and soon the game was completely broken because it kept searching for certain files to start up but it couldn't because they were all named Andrew(1), Andrew(2) etc.

[Evar678]

Accidentally ran a self replicating nuke i made in batch

It took me ~6 seconds to hard reset the computer (instantaneous lockup)
Logged back in, the folder that the batch file was contained in had ~700,000 copies of the program, computer hung for 5 minutes upon opening the folder

1/4th filled 500gb hard drive filled to capacity.

[Decepticon]

Accidentally ran a self replicating nuke i made in batch

It took me ~6 seconds to hard reset the computer (instantaneous lockup)
Logged back in, the folder that the batch file was contained in had ~700,000 copies of the program, computer hung for 5 minutes upon opening the folder

1/4th filled 500gb hard drive filled to capacity.

I remember somebody in YouTube comments saying that they made a comp virus called "Nuker" but they ended up accidentally running it themselves before they could even attempt to spread it, and also anybody heard of the Ebola Virus?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28wQbSVhSlI


[spoiler]it's fake[/spoiler]

[Decepticon]

bump

[Acerblock]

Accidentally ran a self replicating nuke i made in batch

It took me ~6 seconds to hard reset the computer (instantaneous lockup)
Logged back in, the folder that the batch file was contained in had ~700,000 copies of the program, computer hung for 5 minutes upon opening the folder

1/4th filled 500gb hard drive filled to capacity.

LOL
Why would you do that?

[Master Shadow Phoenix]

I remember having a stuffty school laptop during freshman year. A random virus popped into my computer and installed research programs. After that, there was a fake anti-virus program disguised as ransomware telling me to purchase this product or have this file ruined. McAfee did nothing to stop this because I presume that the virus disabled its process. At that point, I had to give it to the tech in order for the hard drive to be wiped.

Strange thing is that I only use the netbook for work and for browsing the forums.

[Isjix]

around 5 years ago or so was when I had my last virus, it was some fake antivirus and it installed itself when I opened a fraps installer I had, not sure why it hid there

[D3ATH LORD]

Le me is curios about CPU's

I take out the cpu
It was pretty hard to remove BTW
I look at it, pretty cool
Cant get it back in the slot
Use force
Bend prongs
REALISE IM MEANT TO PULL BACK LEVER AND ROTATE IT CORRECTLY FFFFFFUUUUUU

[VincentTheGuy]

When i was working on the Halo 2 pc MF.dll that someone else made, but i was perfecting. There was a whole issue with my system32 folder and stuff.

Then i found a really dumbass backdoor kind of program inside another patch that i was using as reference and somehow that backdoor stuff got into the new patch.

Then every time i started my computer, the half-assed backdoor thing opened up a cmd thing and tried to go to a website with a browser that hasn't existed for years.
And there was no way of getting rid of it.

Lets just say my laptop is a festering wound of dumb stuff and experimenting with dangerous files.

[Darkness ZXW]

I remember having a stuffty school laptop during freshman year. A random virus popped into my computer and installed research programs. After that, there was a fake anti-virus program disguised as ransomware telling me to purchase this product or have this file ruined. McAfee did nothing to stop this because I presume that the virus disabled its process. At that point, I had to give it to the tech in order for the hard drive to be wiped.

Strange thing is that I only use the netbook for work and for browsing the forums.

Nah, I have done VirusTotal scans for basic viruses and McAfee detects almost none.

[Snow2]

[Decepticon]

Is that the one from danooct1's videos? If you haven't heard of him, he's a guy who experiments with worms and viruses on Win98/95.

(worms as in viruses not earth worms! lol)