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Did that go away, though? It just got worse, with thousands of bots under every yt vid: "only true ____ fans can like this!", "do not look at my profile pic😔" or the endless strings of nonsense about a cryptoscam from 10 different bots.
It really didn't help that back then the Outlook email client supplied with Windows automatically opened attachments for you, by default. If you did not turn that option off, simply viewing the email was enough for your computer to become infected.
i remember making a private harmless kind of virus, its a batch file that asked if you love it, say yes and you are safe, say no and it will automatically turn the pc off, no harm, no damage, no nothin' just powers off the pc
@@possiblyazureYeah. The first option I change after installing a new copy of Windows is disabling the file extension hiding. Makes everything so much more secure. They should be shown by default
When I was a kid in the 2000s and 2010s, I was always hearing stuff like “be safe online” or “don’t give out personal information online.” You are the first person in eight years that I’ve heard say that.
My dumb fat fingers mistyped it and I dunno how to edit it on mobile, but it’s at 15:40. Look at the word document’s name near the middle of the screen.
@@yukaiyami Gotcha! You should be able to edit a comment on mobile by clicking on the three dots on the top right side of your comment, which pulls up some options including editing
Google must have gutted the mobile web client, you can't edit comments on the mobile version of the web client now, it has to be their app on mobile or your typos are forever.
Yeah. It's more like a burglar quietly unlocking a door to the basement that the owners of the house never use, so he and his burglar friends can return whenever they please.
@@SomnusLucisCaelum You willingly joined those social media barns as you call them, child. Hush up and enjoy your datamining overlords and free services that it pays for....
MyDoom was one of the viruses that infected the XP PC I shared with my siblings back in the day. Not sure where it came from, but it seemed benign. None of our emails were hacked or re-sending this thing to our contacts. But it and other viruses did convince us that switching away from McAfee was a wise decision, lol.
McAfee came pre-installed on my laptop and I uninstalling it improved my laptop's performance by an obviously noticeable amount lol. For as hard as it was to uninstall you'd think it was a virus itself
@@fjordpitsky4486 All our PCs came with McAfee since the Windows 95 days up to XP. As a kid, I didn't question it till the grownups started looking for other solutions. I mean, there must've been a reason for its popularity.
This is a little off-topic, but I think it's interesting. Your description at 7:39, about how those viruses worked by making the victim feel special and privy to something most people aren't? That's also exactly how people get suckered into believing conspiracies theories. It's essentially a low-confidence thing: these folks feel like they suddenly have control over something most don't, because they "know" something the poor misguided masses of the world don't, because they are smarter and more special than them.
I mean, yes, if you don’t care about details, accuracy, or fact checking. This is the same person that did a documentary of a “virus that spread via sound”. He regularly falls for and does entire videos on nonsense. Even the videos about real things are chock full of wrong dates and other wrong information.
I remember the first virus I ever received was called Magistrate and pretty much wiped out my computer. I was 32 years old when I got my first computer in 1997 so I was fairly ignorant about how one worked. My older brother, who was quite savvy with computers bought one for me, but I didn't share his interest so my computer just sat most of the time. I finally started using it more in the early 2000s when I opened an email from someone I didn't know that shared their travel plans with me. That was the beginning of the end of my computer. Not only that, it sent the virus to the few email addresses I had in my address book. The only reason I know that my computer was infected with a virus was that my brother got a copy of the virus that originated from my computer. He was smart enough not to open it like I did. He spent hours salvaging my computer from that nasty virus and I remember him calling it the Magistrate virus. Kind of a catchy name considering the damage it caused.
@@xanlord2k it is technically possible, but there is nearly no circumstances in which a compiler is configured to keep comments in the binary - especially when you're authoring malware.
"Costed" is a Canadian thing. It's considered proper grammar there and in some other English speaking nations. But it does bug the hell out of me every time I hear it.
@@michellelehky2374yeah I'm also Canadian and it's not bullshit, it's just not super common, it really depends on where you are. Plus, costed is indeed in the dictionary
Will never forget it. In 4th grade a friend of mine wanted to give our social study's teacher whom he hated a virus. So he went online and downloaded a folder named virus bomb. Apparently his computer stopped working. Go figure huh : D
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@@unmarketableplushie Don't mind him. This is what a troglodyte homunculus who dwells in their mother's basement & forgets to take their meds sounds like.
It would have been so easy for them to add the higher resolution text file icon and name the file .txt.exe and anybody with show file extensions turned off wouldn't have noticed anything off.
