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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
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Shit, I remember having to wipe my boss's computer back in '03 because he clicked on an attachment called something along the lines of "bigtiddies.mpeg.exe" or some shit.
Me getting a virus on my computer after running sex.exe from limewire. Luckily it was only mildly annoying (as far as I know). A picture of a golfer would pop up and he would swing then the computer would shutdown. Happened once every few days and I kept using the PC for years with that on it.
I miss when viruses were fun instead of extortionate
Back then there was eo much less to gain. The most important thing on the family computer was my Runescape account. I doubt whoever made the virus could even hack my runescape account because I lost access to it almost every week due to a very weak password and me telling all the kids at school my username and password.
I could almost hear The Office theme song playing while I was reading that
That was a very common tactic back in the day.