Have you ever encountered a computer virus?

[Alienfish]

Yeah, including those that goes into your email contacts and emails them random computer ads spam.

 

[forestyne]

Lost an entire hard-drive because of a dodgy torrent of an illegal copy of a game. Bought a new hard-drive, had to reinstall Windows and then I was good to go.

My computer atm probably has some sort of virus that my anti-virus doesn't pick up. Either way I just keep my webcam covered and it's all good.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

i got the metropolitan police virus back in 2012. luckily my dad knew what it was
but no viruses trojans or malware has ever been responsible for killing my computer

 

[Mythicalhoopa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se1k-on1zjE

...what the heck? That's crazy, man. I've never had anything like that before.

 

[Sanrio]

Yep, about 2 or 3 times. Back when I was new to the internet and didn't know what to and not to click.

 

[Drokmar]

I guess this isn't really a virus, but it still ended my computer. I used to have this old tower computer, windows Xp and a monitor bigger than my head. My computer ended up getting struck by lightning years ago, fried the motherboard. Got it replaced, but a couple months later, it got struck by lightning again! I replaced the motherboard one more time, but then about a year later, I suddenly started smelling smoke. Computer blipped out... never turned back on. Guess it did all it could take. The worst part about it is that I needed to be replaced ASAP, because I used it for work, but it was literally the week after black friday! It couldn't have died last week, huh? This was all a long time ago though, so I'm over it now.

 

[Trent the Paladin]

Yes it was called AVG Free and it killed my last laptop via a bad update that I didn't catch.

 

[Alienfish]

Yes it was called AVG Free and it killed my last laptop via a bad update that I didn't catch.

Yeah, I'd say Norton is a freaking bad joke as an anti-virus itself cause it hardly catches stuff and thinks good things are viruses, lol.

 

[EpicGamer12]

One of my laptops came loaded with McAfee a few years back, scary times

 

[Licorice]

Back in 2006(?) when I downloaded Zwinky and that smiley central toolbar. :/

 

[PotatoPowered]

I can't completely remember what I was trying to download, but it had something to do with emulators. I was downloading it and a bunch of pop up ads appeared on my screen. I didn't know at that time what a virus was, but luckily Norton security came to my dumb 6 year old aid and got rid of the virus before it got worse.

 

[forestyne]

Ok but whenever I see this topic I read it like you encountered a computer virus in like, the wild or smth :,)

and here we have a wild computer virus in its natural habitat

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don't know anyone who hasn't caught some sort of virus from pwrn tbh

 

[Psydye]

Yes, definitely!

From things I should've known better too! Thankfully, I'm a lot more careful now!