Viruses

ironpancake

<div class="IPBDescription">have any interesting stories to tell?</div> Well while me and my friend were trying to fix my steam we found that the error message that kept popping up was due to a virus that had spread through out my computer. We used panda activescan and found that it had spread to 879 different files through out my computer.

I was just wondering if you guys had any stories about interesting viruses you, your friends, or your computer has come into contact with.

Mullet

I've had a virus on this computer for over a year...and I can't get rid of it. I've grown to love it and cherish it.

Rellix

Im trying to turn mine into an evil AI..*looks at shodan poster on the wall*

uranium_235

I got a virus. I put the corrupted files on a disk, cleaned my computer, and went to school.

Haf haf haf.

Infinitum

Everytime I go to this **** LAN a large group of morons from the CS comp bring along their PCs with Welcha installed and no **** Windows patch.

And EVERYTIME the network has problems because of this.


So in conclusion:
1.) Welcha = bad
2.) CS Players are annoying, inconsiderate, too **** loud, cheer at the most inoportune times and just plain stupid.
3.) Never eat the free sausages they 'cook', KFC and McDonalds 4 life

Hand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_Again

I was accused of spreading viruses across the school network (of Acorn A5000s, in 1996 or so).

A wrong, vile and unpleasant accusation - it wasn't me, just the network being unreliable.

The virus I <i>had</i> constructed simply didn't work. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Obst

On my old PC I had a virus increasing my disc space o_0. Sounds strange, but it was true. I increased my storage space (was 500MB HD, stored about 700-1GB on it), but in ran slow like hell. Formatted it. Afterwards I was wondering wy the HD was full so fast <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

(This IS true, no j/k in here)

Soylent_green

The only way I can think of that this could happen is if you buy a cut-down version of a harddrive(IE a budget model) where one side of the hard disk platter(s) is unused and the virus somehow managed to 'unlock it'. Or if you formated it incorrectly, not using all the space that was available in your partition(s).

Obst

Hm. I always thought it was a compression thingy...

Soylent_green

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hm. I always thought it was a compression thingy... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Yeah well that's probably it, windows has/had a built-in compression function. You could activate it whenever you felt like and it would slow things down as hell.

If you felt the HDD got full so fast an suspected that compression would help then you could have activated it should you have felt like it. I think it is available per partition or even per folder so that you don't have to compress commonly used files.

So if you suspected compression why was it a mystery then <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

Icarus

i had this virus once. it was back in my starcraft days, 10000 files total 9800 infected <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

Obst

Cause this was back when I was palying on a 386DX laptop with Windows 3.11 and was unable to reproduce the error on another machine which I infected. The compression thing, however, came to my mind as a possibility some weeks ago. But: Did win3.11 have compression as an option?