Does the virus that causes screamers appear on the screen actually exist?
Yes, it's called OSX
Yes. I could make one in GNU Bash right now, thank god for the wonderful thing called the X Window System.
>>55610864
I'm sure it exists, but it's not common. Making and distributing a virus takes a lot of effort. Why would anyone do that when they can't make any money?
You clearly have never booted Windows with speakers turned on.
>>55611637
Or had one with a Bad Apple!! screensaver.
>>55611503
People did it all the time back in the days.
My cousin once got a virus that played the Sierra Tequila song and showed a Mexican dancing on the screen while it erased his HDD.
>>55611637
>tfw SoundBlaster would replace your startup sound with a thunderclap called CTMELODY.WAV and play it full volume when Windows 98 would start
>>55612820
Replacing peoples windows exit sound with a 5 min gay porn wav
>>55611389
>2016
>still spouting LE OSX IS BAD meme
I wonder if you could make a virus that is meant specifically to psychologically damage the victim.
Absolutely not destructive, just things get moved around, random faces pop up and just stare at you ,then disappear , sounds, subtle voices, a little rat runs across the taskbar and then tells you that your mother is a cunt .
There were certainly a few old DOS viruses that exhibited those kinds of payloads. You can probably find a few on the Internet Archive, they have a fun little gallery: https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum
An old, lost Atari ST virus used to try to turn off the RAM banks and reset, which resulted in double-height "bombs" scrolling up a multicoloured, glitchy screen as TOS immediately crashed, and then the crash routine itself shit the bed, trying and failing to find the screen address. Taking out all the SIMMs in the system (only possible if you had a RAM expansion, such as the Xtra-RAM Deluxe, otherwise the RAM would be soldered on) would also do that.
>>55611503
And this is why the old VX scene is well and truly dead. Malware is for "cybercriminals" now.
>>55613113
I made an evil bitch of a virus once that occasionally, randomly swapped keystrokes at certain generation counts. That certainly seemed to mess with people a little bit. I'm glad the generation limit meant it didn't make it into the wild.
