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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss when viruses were fun instead of extortionate

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 months ago

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.

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