What's the nastiest virus you've ever encountered?
2 days ago my pc had a nasty virus/problem:
- internet didn't connect by itself as usual
- The wifi icon was nowhere to be found.
- When I entered network connections via other ways it would say: "this folder is empty".
- Cable internet connection always displayed a red X and also didn't work.
- I couldn't change my video settings through the right click menu. No window would pop up when I tried.
- The task manager would close itself after about 10 seconds.
- I tried a variety of options from the win10 boot menu: windows recovery said there was a problem with one of my external drives. I removed them, and it claimed it was another drive that wasn't even in my pc at the time. It recommended me to run chkdsk /r. When I got back to windows it said windows recovery has been disabled.
- "windows reset" claimed it couldn't continue without a clear reason why
- Other options didn't work, or weren't possible.
I felt blocked at every turn, and I soon realized a format was my only option.
tell me about your glorious battles with only the most horrid monstrosities
I've not once gotten a computer virus, but bumping for interest.
>>51830915
>What's the nastiest virus you've ever encountered?
Windows 10
Gentoo does not have this issue.
I've never had one myself, but ransomware seems the worst
>>51830978
Gentoo also doesn't have video games
Had a ransomware once, good thing nothing I do is important
I once had this deeply entrenched suite of software that tracked everything I typed and sent it to a remote server. It was also using up an entire gigabyte of RAM and automatically downloading/installing new components without my permission, even after I tried to remove them. I fixed it by removing Windows 10.
>>51830963
>hurr windows10 botnet sucks Cortana sucks dick etc.
This meme is annoying as fuck. It's the best windows since xp. It looks good, is chill to use, etc. I'm very content with it.
>>51831024
TuxKart.
>>51831038
You can just format c if you keep all your "important files" on a separate drive right?
>>51831076
brb switching to Gentoo now
>>51830915
Back in about 2007 i would routinely get trojans from browsing dodgy porn sites for pictures, not videos
I got used to re-formatting
>>51831142
>the fuck is /hm/?
>click it
>handsome men
>middle eastern thread on top with mudslimes in seethrough wet robes, his hard dick visibly poking through them
Thanks G.
>>51831080
Depends on if it encrypts other drives too (and what on them, since it can't just blindly encrypt everything unless they wanna risk making you unbootable and thus unable to pay if you tried rebooting to get rid of it) and if it can somehow redundantly hide itself on other drives to emerge again (though it would still require somehow executing those copies after moving to a clean system)
>>51830998
I used to have this, when I was using a free computer given by the government. All I did was alt ctrl del and closed it. Then used malwarebytes to remove it. The virus was similar to that one
Back in jurassic dial-up era they would use your modem to dial pay per minute numbers and get your phone bill in the $1000s. Worse than cryptolocker.
>>51830915
relatives that constantly ask for me to fix their god damn computer
Ebola
>>51831024
Kerbal space program 64 bit without crashing at 3.5gb ram usage
windows always has the 3.5gb limit and crashes when it reaches it (pretty quick with a few mods)
>>51831235
>i got linked to something by another anon in yhe same post where he linked to >>>/lgbt/
>it will not be gay stuff
>better click it
>>51830915
Fucking humans. Humans are the most nastiest virus you'll ever encounter on this dirty planet.
Work in repairs. Get laptop. Apparently keyboard fucking borked and it's slowing down/
Open it up.
Fucking cat hair everywhere. Cat hair under the keys. Oh my fucking god. Open up the laptop case. Cat hair in there.
Nope. Not my job.
>>51830915
>What's the nastiest virus you've ever encountered?
Windows 10.
I hope ganoo linux will be better in 2020 to make the switch.
>>51830915
A military-grade Chinese botnet that was on a machine a friend bought at a pawn shop. I fought with it off and on for roughly two weeks before finally giving up and reinstalling.
>>51831066
20 rupees has been deposited to your bank account, we look forward to doing more business with you Rajesh
>>51831205
Idiot.
>>51832535
Why not just wipe it? Why not chuck it off a bridge since the BIOS was probably compromised too?
The nastiest one i got was when i was 14 that would fork porn until my hard drive filled and crashed the pc. I had to manually delete the folders, but selecting more than about 15 at a time would crash the thing. It would make 2/3 of the folders I deleted by the time I got rid of the first set.
>mum coming home in an hour
>cold sweat
>tfw fighting the virus manually
>>51830915
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_%28computer_virus%29
CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller. Got this beast back in 1998, wiped my drive.
Today I could probably just run a recovery on the disk but I didn't know much back then.
>>51830998
Been there myself with Windows XP. Booted up with Kaspersky rescue drive, sterilized the hard drive and started using Linux.>>51831024
>>51830915
I used to get viruses all the time when I was 17 and downloaded literally everything off of limewire. Haven't really had to deal with that since then
I had a bad one through our old family computer that's no longer with us. It was a Vista downgraded to XP and I spent too much time looking at porn and other stupid shit. Don't know how it was initially infected but it got to the point where I couldn't do anything. I had a vicious malware that would close everything after a few seconds and told me I wasn't allowed because it was malware. Even WMP was being considered malware. I had a screaming rage fit with it and eventually reinstalled Vista in order to restore peace in the galaxy.
>>51830915
>What's the nastiest virus you've ever encountered?
Its called SJWs and they infected my Firefox with malignant cancer.
DarkComet 6 years ago
>>51831501
>Implying /lgbt/ is gay stuff
No, sorry, but that's the tranny board.
>>51831041
#rekt
Shame >>51830963 beat you to it with a no-effort post.
>>51831110
Yessssss. Then we can pic related.
>>51831502
>Fucking humans. Humans are the most nastiest virus you'll ever encounter on this dirty planet.
>Fucking cat hair everywhere. Cat hair under the keys. Oh my fucking god. Open up the laptop case. Cat hair in there.
...So, cats, then.
Vundo trojan, completely fucked over the then-family computer OS-wise. That said, I do credit it for my diving into the world of Linux head-first, so there's that.
Only semi-related, but what's a good free antivirus program?
I've heard Avast is pretty good, should I go with that?
>>51834927
CRYPTOWALL
>>51834927
I've been using avast for about 8 years now and they only recently began adding ads, currently trying to decide if I'll torrent it or pay for it.
>>51830915
A bitcoin miner that almost kills my GPU
>>51834541
I had DarkComet a few years ago and completely fucking missed it. I went looking through my appdata folder and there was a folder blatantly labeled "dclogs". I opened it and it had .txt files keylogging every keystoke for the past few months.
Needless to say I changed every password I had.
>>51834927
MBAM is pretty good if you find a working lifetime key somewhere on the internet
>>51830963
this
last virus I got was limewire back on XP lel
>>51830998
What even is moneypac? Is it some currency used exclusively for ransom ware because I've never seen it anywhere outside of them.
>>51830915
isn't this jim cramer?
>>51830915
Not me personally but as a technician I've learned to fear Crypto Locker/Crypto Wall. Encrypts every file on all devices connected to pc, also all mapped network drives. Basically gg for the data
Backdoor.CIAdoor
>>51831041
Kek
>>51831024
1700 steam games
>>51831066
>is chill to use
Windows vista
>>51836213
that early access indie trash doesn't count
>>51830978
It's a shame you'll never get it to install.
>>51834884
My dad's computer got infected with vundo back in the day. Only things at the time I found that could fix it were superantispyware and combofix. That was before vundofix was a thing iirc.
Back in 2007 when I was younger, got a rogue antivirus while looking at porn.
>>51830963
this
why am i so fucking stupid
>>51830915
>boot into safe mode
>sfc /scannow
Haven't had a virus since like 2005
>>51830915
In 2006. Install warez, next day my system32 is gone. Hooray!
