malware ain't what it used to be

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  @20xdee6 · 2 years ago

  Nobody these days goes through the artistry of constructing a purple ape that sings Daisy in order to backdoor your computer. A crying shame.

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  @marlilizard6682 · 2 years ago

  It’s sad even malware has gotten corporatized and boring

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  @panqueque445 · 2 years ago

  I remember a friend of mine got a pretty shitty virus back in the day. As far as I know, it didn't do anything really malicious besides being annoying. But basically every 30 minutes or so, a picture of a pig would show up on screen along with really loud pig noises.

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  @mellihelli · 2 years ago

  As a kid I managed to download malware alongside a game onto my dad’s laptop that he kept in his shop. All it did was play faint ghostly noises every now and then, it was like his laptop was haunted.

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  @omegaSomeone · 2 years ago

  I’ve always wanted to make a worm that is literally a worm, and I want to name it Wormagotchi. It would just place an executable file on your desktop that would be a tamagotchi but a worm. And have a button with &lt;Go away, worm!&gt; on it that uninstalls the worm, places the Wormagotchi data in a zip in an app data file, then leaves a folder on the desktop with a .txt with the worm saying goodbye to the user in it, and a .png that’s a screenshot of your desktop but with the worm sleeping in the foreground.<br><br>If you got reinfected, the data would be retrieved, and a pop up saying something along the lines of “worm has returned from its trip!” would appear when launching the file explorer.

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  @Firevine · 2 years ago

  Malware used to be interesting - Now it&apos;s just your operating system.

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  @Nwm_kim_jestem · 1 year ago

  I wanna make a harmless malware which opens the wiki page for wario on boot, just so I can make a malware called &quot;warioware&quot;

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  @CheddarVG · 2 years ago (edited)

  Honestly classic malware that screws with your computer, and doesn&apos;t destroy anything is a long lost art.<br>People have made really cool stuff in DOS.

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  @Joghurt2499 · 2 years ago

  My mom got her master&apos;s in computer science in the mid 90s and sometimes tells of the shenanigans some of her peers and colleagues got into to prank eachother. All more or less harmless stuff to have some fun like error messages telling you to &quot;please pump the water out of the hard drive&quot; or later making all the letters in your document fall down.

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  @MythicMachina · 2 years ago

  I know a lot of people are talking about how they want the old malware back, but i&apos;m here just that I&apos;d rather have neither! Malware might be fun to look at, but it&apos;s never as fun when you&apos;re the victim.

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  @WhisPro · 3 years ago (edited)

  &quot;The file can&apos;t be removed because the file has malware.&quot; You had one job.<br><br>(yes this is a real thing, the error code is &nbsp;0x800700e1)

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  @Suddsy11037 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve had a rat once (Remote Access Trojan) one day I came back to my computer to see my cursor moving towards my steam wallet, I moved my mouse and that probably scared them because they stopped. needless to say I had to deep clean my pc. one of the scariest moments I&apos;ve ever experienced though.

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