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What is the most interesting virus you've ever run into /g/
>>55133256
Windows 10
>>55133256
ransome wear.
got it as soon as i installed Windows.
>>55133375
/thread
>>55133256
>Danooct1
Nice.
The one that tells me i have been caught for downloading CP or something.
This is one of my favorite new channels. He has been around for awhile and I am not sure how I didn't find him before. It's so comfy.
i once had a virus that wiped out my whole harddrive. this was almost a decade ago though.
>>55133470
I know some of the DOS viruses he goes over are super cool. It's interesting when you look at the change in viruses from little nuisances or jokes to being malicious.
The GTA5 mod one.
I once got a virus that survived multiple windows clean installs (full hardrive was not formatted , only windows partition was).
It infected the the new windows some 20 30 minutes after clean install every time.
When i got online IT updated itself.
>>55133256
IDK, I stopped fucking around with viruses after one I ran in a VM tried to open Google and search for child porn slang terms ;_;
Buttcoin mining rootkit.
Had to just throw the HDD away.
>>55133750
Fuck
>>55133256
badbios
>>55133750
Well you're here today so everything turned out alright, right?
happened like 6-7 years ago so I can't remember all the details, but
>get what I assume was a worm from merely visiting a free music blog, didn't click anything
>screen immediately gets flooded with popups, false security warnings and the like
>immediately unplug the ethernet cable and force shutdown
>run various trusted virus scans, they keep finding shit but one by one start identifying and deleting THEMSELVES
>all virus protection is now gone by way of self-destruction
>several hours of manually deleting recent files ensues as a last ditch effort
>obviously doesn't work
>restart in safe mode
>temporarily have restored control but shit starts slowly getting infected
>can actually see windows slowly falling apart in safe mode
>decide "fuck it, I lose" and restart into linux partition to search for help
>linux is somehow fully fucked too
>music library is full of audio advertisements and a few fucked up recordings of some guy ranting about his girlfriend or something
>browser only redirects to porn sites
>realize that this was wayyyyyy beyond my computer knowhow
>turn computer off
>wouldn't turn back on
it was a piece of shit anyways so I just took that as a reason to build a new one, but good god was that fun
herpes
your mom
>>55133256
when i was younger, i had a pretty curious one:
every time i booted up, my browser opened and just played some black metal on youtube. that was it. i don't know what it really did in the shadows or if it was just a troll.
>>55133375
I don't get it..
>>55134694
>>55134709
grow up
>>55133375
fpbp
>run into
Don't use this unless you're referring to meatspace (if you are, my answer is Elephantiasis, there's a guy that walks the strip into the city who has it, always fun to gawk at.)
the one that removed my privileges so i couldn't change the default search engine
>>55135790
Go home William, you're drunk
>ransomware
>it failed to take into account multiple monitors
>it didn't encrypt anything
>open task manager on other monitor, find exe location, remove it manually
>>55134678
10/10
A shit tier virus who runs on my school computers
Changing all your USB folders in hidden system folders, and create instead a FUCKING SHORTCUT to an others hidden folders with the virus himself
Not hidden behind a rootkit, not protected, you don't even need an antivirus to delete it (just need to know where it install himself, which is the public users folders)
Old school one half. It fucked up every pc that hsd that shit on it.
>>55133390
>danooct1
I wish he'd look at modern malware rather than shit from the 90s.
>>55133256
An adware. It also made its own registry keys and added every antivirus and registry cleaner (CCleaner) on a blacklist in regedit, even regedit.exe was blocked. Took me an hour until I realised I had to rename the exe files to run adware cleaner and remove those keys.
>>55133750
Just a light suggestion for you on that note: do not google or youtube search "pthc".
Or do. Shit, I ain't your dad, do what you want.
>>55136780
PTHC: Portable THC, for getting blazed on the go.
>>55136777
Yeah, stealth keylogger is very interesting to look at. Expected video length would be what, 5 seconds?
>>55137647
The internals, how it masks itself and creates the stealth is interesting. Not the outside.
i once got a virus from a cracked euro truck sim game, and it infected all of the .exe files on all my harddrives.
>>55137688
Shut up, skid.
>>55134678
>virus infects antivirus
>antivirus is now a virus
Potato virus
That damn virus that poses as the feds and wants you to pay 300$ with a moneypak card, I forget what its called
>>55136477
that's gotta be the stupidest malware
The one that my mother installed 9 years ago along with a shit ton of toolbars and blamed me and my games for breaking the computer.
>>55136780
what does pthc stand for?
>>55138253
i bet they've made at least a couple hundred shekels off it.
>>55133762
was it esea for csgo?
>>55139917
preteen hard c0re
>>55139917
Pre-teen hardcore
>>55136780
I remember i once searched for PTHC on youtube and stumbled with a channel full of hard-core pizza, even with videos in full HD.
Worst part i was logged on my account.
I shat bricks.
>>55139964
kek
>virus thread
>posts mite
>>55140077
kek now I have to try this, it will an upgrade from morning routine and shower routine in diferent languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwBIB4o_kuY
The funniest one I had was when I had Windows 98. I ran an exe and it showed a nude girl in a top hat then it rebooted the PC and wiped my partition.
>>55133375
edgy
HIV.
>>55133256
ms blaster. First time i realized some hackers just do it for the lulz and that intrigued me.
>>55133256
i was using windows xp back in 2011 and got some virus that corrupted my hard drive. when i tried reformatting it and reinstalling windows it wouldn't even get recognized. it wasn't until i bought a second hard drive and connected this one as a slave that it got recognized.
The Compaq BIOS virus was cool
>>55134678
nice
>>55133418
Same, mine turned on my Webcam, put the FBI logo on my screen and was making me pay $200 to drop the "charges" I just wiped the computer
>>55136777
But malware from the 90s is art
Malware nowadays are just made for profit such as ransomware and keyloggers
I had a ransomware that wanted me to do a survey, got it off a steam keygen. The problem was that it also would close any browser windows and try to delete my system32 if it thought i was trying to remove it. Which means it couldn't be completed, because it would close the survey. What an absolutely shit piece of code.
anyways, booted into a a flashdrive running ubuntu, fired up a vm, and ran mwb. in hindsight, i shouldn't have disabled my av for the keygen if it was triggering the shield. lesson learned, no harm, no foul.
>>55142515
>falling for keygen
Underage pls go
got RAT'd or something and the guy started talking in my friends chat window that I was talking to
he told me to spread the virus link and he'd leave me alone. i went into safe mode without internet and used mwb or something similar and he was gone
>>55133256
Chernobyl CIH on Twilight CDs. Not that I expect millennials to understand.
I did successfully neutered it and kept it as a Windows companion for a couple of years, until I moved to XP
>>55135687
can you please leave our secret club newfriend?
Found one a few years back on a public high school's computer. It put a copy of itself in every single folder it could access, which included every student's and teacher's network drive. Fortunately for the school (and unfortunately for my sides), it wouldn't autorun on a computer that hadn't run it already.
It also managed to fill an elementary school's network drive on the other side of the county, which for whatever reason was linked to the high school.
>>55133256
I got a RAT once and the hacker just left me a .txt telling me how he got me and telling me to reinstall windows
PC Cleaner Pro. Not much for anyone who knows his shit, but death for normies.
http://www.pccleaner.com/
The uninstall actually opens the software, so you need a third party software to remove it.
Who remembers this shit?
'Memba this?
>>55133256
I did a fair bit of swapping in the late 80s/early 90s on the Atari ST platform: sending floppy disks through the post, often internationally, in jiffy bags. These might be diskmags/zines, or other software. One of my correspondents was a lovely woman from Slovenia called Katja, who went by the name of "Lucky Lady". We wrote to each other frequently, penpal-style, in the early days of the scene: she taught me a lot.
She didn't release into the wild, so only a few of her creations survive: she also corresponded with a few other people, including the person who wrote the most popular virus killer at the time.
One of her disks featured a multipartite bootsector/link virus, which transparently encrypted (and on-the-fly decrypted) the data on floppy disks when spreading to them. You had to boot it to read her disk.
It was otherwise pretty benign, except that it also contained, in its linkvirus form (the bootsector form ate dummy entries on the second FAT because it was oversized), a malformed symbol table featuring a stack overflow exploit for the popular debugger MonST, as a lovely trap for anyone who may attempt to analyse the virus - causing it to instead display a message to the effect that "Lucky Lady is your empress !" and reboot the machine into a tiny reset-proof payload routine that drew scrolling bombs over the screen.
It was the first buffer overflow exploit I'd ever seen: she totally blew my mind with it, caught me off guard. I never expected she could infect me through the debugger.
She's been gone a little over two decades. I miss her.
around 2003-4 i got a virus from kazaa or something p2p that filled up my HDD with erroneous files until it was completely full / used all CPU /disk IO etc
pretty easy fix just had to reformat windows on it
>>55133256
I have no idea what it was but I had a virus that took pics of me every few minutes and saved it , I only knew this because when I gave my friend my computer to fix it he found pictures of me masturbating and playing dress up, still gives me shit for it till this day but it's pretty surprising how viruses have advanced
>>55145047
why didn't you fug?
>>55145338
There's a big chance he put them online
>>55145461
Nah , he tried blackmailing me as a joke but he deleted everything
Once my pirated antivirus (bitdefender, i think it was) released an update which caused it to think literally every file in my system32 is a birus. When I sat down on my computer, almost everything was gone, lel. There was a real outrage on the forums.
>>55144785
ah, yes: "shutdown -a" or the time when I learned about the command line. made me feel like I was Neo.
>Mpc cleaner
Not really interesting but it's literal cancer, hard to get rid of one it's there and it keeps growing. It's all in your face style too, it doesn't just fuck you up stealthily it adds new icons to the desktop and shows pop-ups and turns your browser homepage into a Japanese site that leads to sexcam sites.
>>55139964
Wew reminded me of something that happened recently, my brother got a miner, and a ton of other shit from downloading cs 1.6 from some shady site, wiped his laptop and bought cs:go for him.
>>55145781
It also deletes rkill when it's downloaded, blocks adwcleaner and probably fucks with other cleaning tools as well. Worst of all it's Japanese or some shit so you can't ask it to fuck itself nicely and uninstall.
one time i opened a diablo 2 drop script
fucking lost my rare hydra bow
>>55133418
kek i got a add like that once, i was pretty drunk when it happened then declared that if anyone was going to wipe my hard drive, it would be me.
>>55145861
>diablo 2 drop script
>fucking lost my rare hydra bow
We used to get a shitload of good gear doing that to people, bet you got it over AIM too.
>its possible it was me
>>55145927
nah they offered me to "be in their clan" and i opened an email with the link inside it to "sign up"
very cheap way for me to learn a good lesson back then
Someone post the YouTube link of that guy trying all the viruses please.
>>55146965
https://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1
>>55133256
I saw one that did not infect anything, in fact it wasn't even found on the system in any way... but kept popping up window ads even on what was pretty much a fresh install.
Turns out that whatever it was, it logged into the router (using the default login), and changed the DNS server on the connection type to its own.
>>55146990
Thanks anon
>>55145338
>not disabling mic and cam as the first thing you do when you get a computer
>any year
>>55142311
I got mine while I was ricing the shit out of xp
once went to my grandmothers house as a child. wanted to play some vidyas, but granny said "use the other PC anon that one has a virus I think". fucking computer just sat there opening and closing the disc drive on itself over and over and over despite being in sleep mode. turn it on and log into the default account, everything is really laggy and slow, pop-ups everywhere. stupid disc drive still going. I just unplugged it and left it alone.
>>55144024
I've had this.
I did reinstall windows.
>>55136777
rogueamp does that.
>>55133375
this desu senpai
>>55144024
There was a semi-popular sub7-clone RAT once that, after it had been installed, would post some info to a php page (IP, port, credentials, status, etc).
A ton of skiddies didn't bother changing the default address to one they owned before sending the RAT to their victims, which means that the default php used as an example listed a shitton of infected computers. I would spend whole afternoons connecting to these IPs and using the RAT's self-removal function after leaving a txt file on the desktop with the RAT's access log (- my ip).
That was fun.
>>55133256
The one that turned my notebook into a bitcoin miner.
