When is the last time you've got a virus? Be honest.
>>54041540
8 years ago.
About 8 years myself I believe. I'm 28 now for perspective I guess
never.
I'm 21 and used linux my whole life.
>mfw not having a normie family
>>54041540
4? maybe 5 years. I hardly ever download exes aside anymore, aside from steam games I guess.
when i was 15, running those rs bots brah
Never
Ever since I moved to Common Sense μEdition. Comes with free yearly updates.
>>54041540
In about 2012, on my last PC, I got tricked by one of those .exe that had a unicode filename which obscured the true file extension. Had to clean that shit up while frantically killing processes manually before they downloaded more shit. Fun times. Current PC? Nothing yet.
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/cybercrime/2014/01/the-rtlo-method/
>>54041540
Was about to fap to that pic
Then I noticed she has only 4 fingers
does adware count? usually 'virus' is explained as a trojan or worm
>>54041620
pic reminds me of her
>>54041540
Pirated VMWare about 5 years ago. But nothing actually came of it. It kept trying to run something from the user folder, but EMET was preventing it from executing whatever kind of memory attack it wanted to perform.
>>54041540
7 Years ago give or take.
>>54041708
CryptoPrevent will stop shit from even running from the user folder. Try it out.
Never.
>>54041721
It wasn't a crypto, at least to my knowledge. Nothing was even able to run.
I only realize there was something there when I was looking through the event viewer logs one day and noticed this program constantly trying to run and failing a few hundred times a day.
I'm assuming it was EMET, but it's possible it was the fact I have UAC set to its highest setting as well and wasn't able to elevate its process with a whitelisted application like calc.exe because those applications are no longer UAC whitelisted at the highest level.
So yeah, don't know what it was trying to do, but it failed at doing it. I was getting a new SSD anyways so I decided how was the time to do a clean install.
>>54041648
Not a virus but I had a rogue bot that I couldn't close because it was clicking manically all over the screen before rsbot was a thing
>>54041768
haha yeah i used to have that problem when i would run an autoclicker
>>54041620
holy shit I was I was friends with that guy.
>>54041707
who is this semen demon?
>>54041540
I dunno man a long time ago on like windows ME or some shit that my dad installed.
>>54041875
Ergo Proxy chick.
I've used Linux since 2005. I think the last time I had a virus problem was early 2005 or at some point in 2004.
>>54041879
Actually not true. When I was at uni I pirated some games and photoshop and notice a ton of traffic to russia/china. Formatted and went away but prob some botnet shit.
>>54041540
Over 10 years ago or so. Last time I got malware was from cracked FM 2013 install in 2008 or so but it was pretty easy to get rid of, just annoying.
i had my credit card number stolen about 7 or 8 years ago, and it was used in another country half way across the world, so i'm pretty sure i must have had a virus on my desktop around then, unless it was skimmed or harvested from some shitty website that stored the number illegally or something. never actually found a virus, but i blew away the OS away just be sure.
i've since switched to linux about 5 years ago anyway
Wasn't a virus but somebody nicked my entire CSGO inventory because I didn't have a password for Teamviewer access. They could've fucked up my entire life but they only wanted some cosmetic, useless shit for a video game I got back anyways by sending an email to the Steam support.
>>54041891
Her name is boko no pico
>>54041540
The one and only time I've gotten a virus (since I started computering in ~1996) was about 5 years ago when I clicked a link on /b/ (I knew it was fishy, but thought my Java was up-to-date enough to be fairly safe... yeah, right) that exploited some Java bug and started trying to infect everything on my PC. A few seconds in, I realized what was happening and pulled the plug (literally), then booted linux and used f-prot and clamav to clean up what was infected... deleted like 20 replaceable executables and was fine after that.
Since then, I don't even install Java anymore, and just flat out avoid anything that requires it.
TLDR: fuck Java
>>54041540
probably 2008 or 2009, nasty sality32
and before that probably in 2004/2005, same sality32 crap
both times because i rushed while getting stuff installed (the most recent one was trying to download the free/cli version of ms/t-sql server cause the ms servers were being slow)
before these occurences i used xp+ie6+spybotsearch&destroy+norton and pc was always clean (2003 or so), then decided to use firefox (pre release) without any antivirus ever since
fuck sality32
>thx for reading my blog
kinda sad, but about twice a month
Not since XP.
Malware yes, but not installed by me. I've since made a dedicated admin account and passworded it to ensure that never happens again either.
Fucking forever ago. Got it from Morpheus or maybe even Napster. 15 years or about.
Don't even run antivirus nor have for 10 years. I'm just not an idiot.
>>54041540
Right before I stopped using wangblows.
>>54041540
I got the Penis.exe variant of Blaster back in like 2003 or something.
Fuckin' thing.
That's the only one.
13 years ago, a worm. AV didn't pick it up. Managed to delete it as it wasnt sophisticated at all, executable, registry entries, system folders...
>>54041856
Tell us about him
Never, which is surprising considering I've been running Windows without any supervision since I was 8. Just a testament to how retarded you have to be to get malware.
2007. My first actual laptop. Managed to delete it manually. First and only virus I've ever had.
>>54041692
You just ruined that picture for me
Something like ten or eleven years ago? It wasn't even a virus, it was just adware.
>>54041540
I don't think I have
>>54041988
>Steam Support
>Responding
>Giving back your cosmetics
I find this hard to believe
>>54041540
It's been long enough that I don't remember. I actually do run a virus scanner unlike some people on /g/, kaspersky to be specific and it always comes up clean.
>inb4 falling for the russian botnet meme
It's probably been about 6-8 years and I haven't used any kind of anti virus programs since 2005 or so.
every night i dream that im on my computer and i love this computer very much but it gets haxxored and i cant type words without the words changing, and i can't read words without the words changing constantly :c
When Windows XP was best OS but some people said they liked Windows 2000 more. Few even said they liked Windows Me more.
>>54041540
10 years. I'm 21
>>54041540
I think around 2007 from a sketchy game crack.
I stopped pirating games after that, and started using linux as my day to day in 2010.
>>54041540
We'll be just got cancer from this thread. does that count as a virus?
>>54041540
I think it was 12-13 years ago.
>>54042253
What the fuck are you doing?
>>54041540
FUCKING BLUE BALLED
MODS MODS MODS
limewire
>>54041540
1999 just got a computer was turned on and didn't know shit about computers and where to find safe porn, deleted it after googling how to (I was 7)
>>54041540
10 years ago.
Not by Me, was done by someone using my Computer.
>Windows XP
>Free game downloading spree
>>54041540
2 years ago in my Windows partition.
> Download Deamon tools
> Weird things starts happening
> Run Malware Bytes
> 500 viruses found
Just wiped partition and reinstalled. Also that was the day I learned about WinCDEmu.
>>54041707
It make me sick you think Real looks like that
>>54043203
You probably didn't have 500 viruses. Sometimes it installs a browser extension and MBAM picks up all the components of the extension as a "virus"
>Including css
>>54043234
yeah whatever man, Windows was just shitting itself with adwares and shit, it got aids and I had to put it down.
>>54041540
about 8 years ago or so
three years ago
[spoiler]from sims 3[/spoiler]
it worked, but it had a trojan, so i just reinstalled the OS
1999. It was through an email attachment, .exe, in December I believe. When opened it showed this cute fireworks display in a small window. I didn't realize it was a virus until the next day when it fucked my shit up.
>>54041540
7 years ago on the family computer. Got so bad that only the wallpaper would load up and I had no idea what to do.
>>54042546
She has 5 fingers, it's just the photo
10+ years ago, can't recall. Friend had flashdrive with autorun bullshit in it.
I don't understand how people get viruses to be honest. I was running on winxp until 2013, and windows 7 until last night when I installed Arch.
Never used an antivirus or any security programs.
2 years ago on my 1 year old windows install i got a opencl virus that burnt out my 6970 and overvolted my motherboard and blew that too as well as fried some ram sticks for good measure.
had to chuck the whole pc except the psu and case and ssd everything else was fried.
god w7 was a insecure pos i wont run it anymore because of how insecure it is its like xp not worth it.
Upgraded to windows 10 7 months ago never looked back
>>54043645
Holy fuck. I always wondered if that was possible, either a virus that overvolts shit until it is fried or overclocks until it is cooked.
>>54041540
I only ever got virus on purpose. Its been decades. There is a guy at work who gets them all the time "Shes hot for me and in my area!" "DONT FUCKING CLICK ON IT FRANK!!!"
Only time I remember getting them years ago was when I clicked on shit I knew I wasnt supposed to. Like some fucked up download promising porn and my head was screaming its fake as fuck and then I thought but its the fetish I like Im going to chance it.
>>54043645
>>54043692
that reminds me, i've always feared that there were some kind of viruses that take control of you volume and crank it up to max and show some scary picture with a horrifying sound.
is this just some /x/ meme or is it actually real?
3 months ago, roughly. MyCompanyName_Installer.exe
oh wait no, it was companies internal software that obviously never went through QA and wasn't caught by the non-existent full scan mechanism.
I almost cried when the helpdesk guy used small words and told me that it wasn't a virus and I had to thank him for his good work figuring that out.
>>54043645
nice try, poojeet.
I accidentally installed Vuze with adware
>>54043455
happy99 is the last piece of malware I can think of that was creative in some way. Unless you count lose/lose, but lose/lose is consensual.
2005 maybe
>>54041540
Probably the only one, but I got the lovebug in '00
>>54041540
sometime in high school I think, I'm 28 now
1997
>>54041540
2013, on a Vista laptop.
I'm going to say highschool even though I think that was spyware it was about 10 years ago so I honestly don't remember.
>>54041540
From a Runescape advert in 2003. Fucking went on a crusade to block advertising after that.
>>54043726
Yes its possible there was a vbs script a few years ago that would max out your volume, prevent closing it or shutting down your pc, prevent lowering the volume and play the MLP theme song. I think it would also inject its self into your startup folder. Absolutely diabolical.
I ran a scan from Malwarebytes that found a virus that AVG, Comodo, Avast, Avira, Windows Defender, and every other free antivirus tool I ever used in 9 years could not detect. It might be on your computer too.
>>54044512
malware is different from viruses
Never because i'm not a fucking retarded autist like 95% of /g/.
Not sure if this counts but a friend tested his RAT on me one time to spook me, but he's since stopped using it
I've never knowingly had malware. Been using macs since 1996 with Linux on the side here and there. Windows has always been relegated to a VM or at the most, a booted-into-once-a-year partition precisely where it belongs.
Two years ago, I was using windows 7 at that time. Carelessly put my friend's flash drive into it.
>>54044540
Bruh.
>>54044612
What did you do with his body?
The last virus that I installed was Windows
>>54041540
last week
Never, been using Windows all my life. Just being honest.
Viruses have always been that thing that happens to other people.
Around 2003 or so because I was still in my teens. Windows 7 user here.
Once back in early 2000s on XP. Somehow got it from an anime dvd I rented from Blockbuster and it deleted every exe file.
>>54041540
About 5 years ago I got chlamydia from one of the sluts I was banging.
>>54043229
>Real
>>54044863
>Somehow got it from an anime dvd
I'm not trying to be an asshole but do you honestly believe that shit?
>>54041692
and you have no eyes
I've actually never gotten a virus and I've always used Windows, the closest thing to a virus however was a keylogger site that stole my runescape account when I was younger.
Oh well
>>54044894
I did back then.
>>54044894
Baka, DVDs were able to automatically run executables on Windows. It definitely could have happened.
>>54044980
And it didn't install spyware or a rootkit, but an exe that trashed every file.
>>54044865
Have you tried to format C: ?
about a week ago thinking i was safe from keygens lol, took care of it though
>>54045051
however, it was more than 10 years or so prior to this last issue
>>54045051
>>54045057
No one knows what you're talking about, namefag
>>54043168
Why the fucked did you watch porn at the age of 7 wtf?
>>54045071
sorry, i borrowed the name from a /k/ommando who didnt use a trip
>>54045077
>not watching porn because you can
>>54045092
So you're like a crazy person
>>54044863
KILLALLNERDS.EXE
Probably "kak.hta" under Win98 around 13-ish years ago.
shit happens on windows if you dont even know it. but no idea. stuff has gone more hidden these days. but yeah. common sense niggas. use it.
>>54041540
Honestly, can't even remember. Probably 2007 or earlier. There's so much prevention out there that the average user is almost never even exposed
>>54045298
>the average user
is moderately retarded.
>what firewall are you using?
firewall?
>antivirus?
uhh it came with the computer... mcjaffe i think
>what did you download last?
a software updater thingy. windows said it was okay to do
>>54044866
kek
9 years ago. Got it while watching one of those sketchy porn sites (I was 11 and didn't know any better). Completely bricked my family's PC. Fortunately, we bought another Vista machine 2 weeks before this and backed all our pictures and documents up so everything was fine.
>>54041540
>adware
When i installed honeyview 7 months ago.
>Malware
2 years ago, infected USB.
>Browser inject
1 year 5 months ago, While searching for some 2D porn on shady chinese websites.
>Browser extension exploit
1 year 2 months ago, same as above.
yesterday after i installed my new SSD and looking to replace all my pirated programs. Feel bad man, I don't think I even got rid of all of it too. I don't want to install too many gimicky adware removal shit so I hope I managed to remove all of it
>>54041540
I'd wager to say over 10 years
>>54041540
A real virus?
More than 8 years ago or something.
Other than that, a bunch of false positives from Avast, even my own programs compiled in MinGW.
Never, just don't be a retard and you'll be alright.
Every day, I analyze them
However getting infected myself was probably like 12 years ago
>>54041571
this is the correct answer
>>54041540
Never. I'm not a retard
>>54041540
5 and a half years ago I think? I was super sick with a 103 fever and kind of delirious and I decided I fucking needed the Panty and Stocking OST like right fucking now. I got some shitty fake antivirus instead. Like it still had the windows XP look shitty.
Before that I got a trojan when I was 12 trying to download porn off of limewire. That was when I officially started my journey to becoming the "computer guy" because I had to learn how to fix it before my dad came home and kicked my ass.
I think like 5 years ago I was go being lazy on my trash box jerking off to some shady Russian port site and I got some ransomware. Pretty easy to take care of, not like these modern ones.
Win7, I don't remember. At least 6 years, and I don't run antivirus for at least 3 years.
Before you say infections are different now I could run malwarebytes, combofix, and adwcleaner right now and I'll guarantee you they don't come up with a goddamn thing.
If I'm infected with something that those things don't detect, well then what good would an antivirus do against that anyway? none.
>>54046442
DBAN and reinstall windows.
12 year old me loved downloading hacks cheats and porn, felt like I had to reinstall windows XP every month because I'd fuck it up so bad. I was always pretty cautious too and used jotti
>>54041540
Got one with crysis 2, since then, I haven't had one, and if I did it went unnoticed and was wiped when I reformatted
>>54041540
around 2001 or so, it was a bootsector virus, showed some russian or something upon boot
was ~11 and running 98SE at the time
most likely from a dodgy shareware site
About 10 years ago. I can't remember what is was. Might have been the "legit" adobe CS whatever version my friend gave me on a usb.
My brother on the other hand... I swear he gets about one or two a week. Every time I see his quarantine list it doubles in size.
>>54041540
6 years. I'm 20 now.
Got herpes last weekend, the weekend before the new semester lol.
>>54041540
2004. That damn rootkit totally fucked my win xp pc
>>54043590
>airbrushed to oblivion
noty
>>54047549
>cosplaying as a drawn character
>complain that she looks drawn
>>54047600
she looks badly photoshopped, not drawn
>>54041540
like 6-7 years ago. i literally plug in found usb sticks, click any spam link that come my way and run exes. I don't think viruses really exist.
>>54047670
>I don't think viruses really exist.
You really don't belong on /g/
>>54041875
>>54041540
About 5 years ago, from an Adobe acrobat reader exploit.
After that I switched to GNU/Linux and stopped using proprietary software.
Also stop posting Anzu, he's fucking disgusting.
>>54047693
>not renaming that file coogle.jpg
Come on
>>54047811
I literally didn't notice it, and I've had that picture for years.
>>54041540
I mixed up domain for Daz tools website and downloaded the mother of all viruses. It went around payed version of Bitdefender like it wasn't even installed. Switched to Linux for last 3 years
A few weeks ago, funnily enough. Excluding that, I haven't had a virus for many, many years. It was a well seeded cracked game, but not from the usual websites I visit. Installed a whole bunch of dodgy shit and then changed my DNS, which didn't work at all because I run my own DNS servers resolvers.
I'd been meaning to switch to Linux for a while now so no biggie.
Ive got a process showing up on my Windows mashine thats labelling itself as "systemunterbrechungen" am I doomed?
>>54048235
Of course, you're using Windows :^)
(and german)
>>54041540
I think the first and last time was back in 2010? I was 15 and I was beginning to discover the world of cracked software, but also I wasn’t very aware of the precautions to take at that time, and I got an adware that asked me to pay in order to see the webpages I was browsing. Ran Adwcleaner and it was gone, fortunately.
This was on my first PC, but since then, I got three other PCs, and nothing yet.
I think I've literally never gotten a virus (emphasis on "I", I've used family computers riddled with crap)
I have never been hacked on any kind of service/site or had anything strange happen to my PC, which is weird because I used to download shit tons of public hacks for FPS games in my early teens while only being semi-cautious.
>>54041540
Accidentally downloaded a ZIP file with a soundtrack in it while buzzed, didnt uncheck the download optimizer and installed the horde of malware.
Spent 3 hours fixing that shit
>>54041692
Most cartoons only are drawn with 4 fingers. She had a finger removed to be an authentic Waifu.
got a keylogger a month ago, but before that like 1.5years ago
>>54047623
Shut up, Anzu is cute af.
I don't think I've had a virus that has caused any serious problems in the past 10 years.
Occasionally I get adware which is removed immediately.
never.
Almost fell for the utorrent bitcoin miner though.
A Sony Vegas crack put some nasty ass malware and adware on my laptop, but I just wiped my HDD and reinstalled my OS.
That big purple monkey
Don't remember his name
>>54041540
Got a shitty bitcoin miner from a crack for Call of Duty Black Ops which disguised itself as the windows search indexer (and completely broke it beyond repair after I finally removed it)
Bonzi buddy, back in 2002.
Common sense is POWERFUL.
Although I may have gotten more than that and not noticed, I tend to reformat every few years.
How would you really know? At the moment, I have no idea if some very well hidden keylogger/whatever is running or not.
>>54047713
>he
>>54048895
bonzibuddy
Zlob in 2008-ish, Parent brought me a cheapo Chinese MP3 player from god knows where, the driver(should've been the first clue) came with it.
Like seven years ago when I was using Ares
>>54041620
TELL ME ABOUT KANE
About 9 years ago, ironically enough on Mac OS 10.4.
>run linux at home
>no virus
>be forced to run windows on school computer
>get virus
>>54041856
I'm friends with Kane, but not the guy in the photo
1972
came down with a viral infection after sludging through Da Lang
>>54049060
antivirus detect only shitty ones, you can never be sure.
>>54041540
Never really had any, besides one trojan horse about 7 years ago.
>>54041540
10-15 years ago
>>54043234
Those adware extensions have a tendency to download more shit, which in turn downloads more, until you have legit malware on there as well as all the adware toolbar crap.
>>54041540
never, really.
i mostly used Mac OS (the non-unix one) and unix derivatives (BSD and osx a bit)
6 years ago I think.
I had a pentium 3 and windows 98 so
>>54049328
Is this in 'Nam?
2010 back on Windows XP and a Pentium 4 HT. Must've downloaded something by mistake and the file extensions became unregistered. Never had a virus since
2 days ago a site redirected me to my router page, tried to log in with the default password (that I can't change for whatever reason).
the logs indicate no change has been made, but I'm paranoid.
anybody got an input on what could've happened?
>>54041540
I think it was during 2000.
fucked up in 2015, i probably had a bitcoin miner or something based on my cpu activity but only recently had the opportunity to reinstall (had no way to back up my data)
>>54041540
~2005
Was running a already infected copy of 2000. When installed would run Conficker as far as I remember,but it also could be Sasser.
>>54041540
When I stopped using Windows XP like 8 years ago
>>54041540
1994
Probably 5 years ago.
Today because my Intel CPU is a virus.
2003. I plugged my desktop into the ethernet port in ny student apt. I thought I was on the school network and that I was safe. After two weeks my computer became unusable.
Turns out the apartments used time warner business class for internet access. I wiped the computer, reinstalled windows, and black ice firewall/IDS. I was floored at the nonstop port scans and other attacks.
anzuuuu
>>54041540
A few months ago. I lent a friend one of my old laptops. In a span of 2 days they managed to get 2 root kits and 79 other infections, they also started using IE because they some how broke chrome.
I need to figure out a way to weaponize this person.
Never had any because I'm not a fucking retard.
>>54054501
You're still an autistic faggot
How do people get viruses?
One time I installed an XP VM and tried to download every fake firefox and chrome link I could find, clicking every fake download button and following endless chains of links on shitty porn sites.
No virus.
>>54041692
3 fingers and a thumb
>>54041692
ring finger is pressing down, look closely.
she is ugly as hell in real life :^)
>>54056009
Prove it
>>54041540
Yesterday, if that nice man from Microsoft on the phone was to be believed.
>>54041540
Like 5 years ago I got a porn pop-up virus.
Also testing if am banned still.
>>54056021
go her instagram find pictures without makeup
>>54056040
confirmed a babe
>>54056040
This is the closest I can find, looks awfully cute to me
>>54056160
would marry and impregnate
>>54041540
A year or two before i started using NoScript back in 2006 I think? So around 2004. I got some ransomware that would open the CD tray and pop up a text file asking for money to fix it. Google found a better solution in less than a minute.
My mother on the other hand continued to use IE on her own computer until she switched to Chrome a few years ago, and she'd get like 2-3 viruses a year.
today, fuckin qksee programm, maybe someone can hack it? it called 'qksee'
>>54056040
she's even cuter in the pics where she's wearing less makeup and looks like a real human instead of a plastic sex doll wit neon wigs.
if you think this girl is ugly I shudder to think what you find attractive because your taste is fucking bizzaro world.
When μtorrent got hijacked, I noticed it wasn't signed, but I thought: "What the hell, shit doesn't even ask for administrator privilege".
All it did was drop one of them fake security suites and have it run on boot.
I don't even remember how many years ago it was.
>>54041540
I use GNU/Linux.
>>54044794
this
>>54041540
oh boy you just made me remember about twelve years ago win 98 computer got a virus called melissa which changed the desktop wallpaper to an ayyyy lmao like pic related then after like 2 weeks it displayed a message on the screen it was a letter written in portuguese dad was wit me at that time he translated it was about a programmer that lost his lover Melissa pretty sad then computer froze we tried to reboot but windows did't boot we never knew how the computer got it
>>54041540
About 5 years ago, a keyloger
Found out about it because it kept crashing programs everytime i typed non-americuck characters like ¨
>>54041540
Like October last year.
Some game from kat came with a bitcoin miner that was using my Cpu. I wonder how profitable it was for them?
2 months ago, Cryptolocker smuggled in an ad. I forgot to reenable adblock after I turned it off for something to load properly.
When I didn't update the Java JDK since I never got a warning about it and suddenly Kaspersky found a Bitcoin miner in one of its folders.
>>54042796
steam actually gives back your items surprisingly back before the mobile authentication
>>54041540
back in the mid-90s. every floppy disk in the Windows 95 install media was infected with NYB.
>>54041676
got one of these too
>>54041540
>a turkroach somehow is this cute
She's 100% white right?
I got some gameloft.name virus thing 2 months ago im still scepticalt that if i got rid of it...
