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It's funny, just gotta win the jackpot and it deletes itself. If you lose, it deletes everything.
Probably got it from plugging my USB flashdrive at school.
This was before I got into linux.
Okay, story time. Gather round children. Grandpa Haruspex has a tale.
In my 20s, my wife and I were newly married. I had an actual computer, and she had an old laptop that barely ran. Being the nice husband I am, since I couldn't really afford to put together a whole new system for her just yet, so I ensured that she could get on my computer if she wanted to play a game or watch a movie or something.
Now, this was before Netflix was streaming. (They were strictly a DVD rental service.) I showed her a few websites where she could stream movies for free. These were pretty sketchy sites, but they worked well enough if you knew what you were doing.
One day while I was at work, my wife wanted to watch a movie on the Internet. The site I previously showed her was shut down, so she found another one that looked similar and had the movie she wanted to see. She clicked on the movie, and a pop up came up telling her that she had to install a codec in order to stream the movie. This seemed reasonable to her, so she ran the executable file that downloaded. It didn't seem to do anything at all, and her movie still didn't work. I think she gave up at that point.
I came home from work and fired up my beloved computer. Immediately I knew something was wrong. My taskbar had "virus scanners" in it that were insisting I had thousands of infections and provided a phone number to call to fix it. My web browser was also hijacked and redirected everything through some sketchy advertisements.
The wife and I had an argument that night. She denied everything, before eventually admitting to having fallen for a trojan and apologizing while crying. I reassured her that it was okay, and that it was nothing I couldn't fix. I spent the evening restoring my PC and changing all my passwords.
After that, I prioritized getting her a PC of her own, and I keep my own PC locked down. She has no reason to use my PC. I have no reason to use hers, and I don't, unless she asks me to for some reason or other.
We've been married for 17 years now, happily. Part of the reason for our successful marriage is that while we share our lives, we still give each other our own space. Our phones are locked down too. I always find it funny when couples snoop on each others devices, looking for evidence of infidelity. This shows a distinct lack of trust.
Since that incident, there hasn't been another virus on either of our machines. My teenage son on the other hand had to learn the hard way once, but that's another story.
Yeah this is the one I had I think, was right around that time too.
few notable ones were
Sasser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasser_(computer_worm)
Conficker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
You can still find Sasser out there, and get infected by it if you run unpatched windows xp and just roam around a bit
Now the anti virus does the job for you but 'back in my day' you would be told about it by the anti virus then you had to research it yourself and fix it enough yourself so the anti virus could chuck it into the quarantine.
Also a very well known anti virus program was pure bs. The only thing it really did when it was released was fix the virus the creator made themself and released into the world.
No, I will not say which one.
It was also in the days when Norton anti virus would take up so much ram that was stuck into windows even if that system could not really handle norton's unstoppable power hungry appetite for system resource.
So you would get a virus, norton would try telling you about it then jam your system so hard trying to tell you about it and make everything a lot worse as the virus spread.
Avast became popular thanks to Norton. (imo).
Once you're sufficiently computer literate you reach a point where you just don't get exposed to 99% of what's out there because a lot of it spreads through naivety.
I did a paper on Conficker when I was in college. It was nasty because it incorporated so many different features to allow it to spread. It could also do remote code execution, so once it spread into a windows network it was just a matter of time before it infected every PC on the network.
At the time it was described as a super virus.
from websites 2007 or earlier etc.