Heard About a Really Messed Up Cyber Viruse from 3 Years Ago

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At a Denny's a few nights ago, I was in a conversation with someone I know about cyber viruses.
The person I was talking with told me about the time a friend of his accidentally clicked on a virus pop-up three years ago.
He said what the virus did was erase the Windows operating system off his friend's laptop, and downloaded a DOS operating system in its place...like the operating system PCs had before Windows was introduced.
How messed up is that?

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mudpaws

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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oh yeah theres a bunch of weaird viruses like that one i think call a snapit and i forget what some are called but they are very nasty and then theres a few the FBI out out thats a big trap just to bust people for shit out you really need to be careful of sites you go to .,. like when i just started out my locksmithing biz , with a brand new laptop i got from a loco pc shop in my hood , anyways i was tring to find wholesale CCTV and security systms , and one site i was on had this gold coin floting around on the screen and it had the a 50% off next order on it ,, well when i clicked on it althe suden a bunch of windows started opening and down louding stuff and evn some very illegal crap ;

well i unpulged it from the modem to stop all the downlodes but it jamed it so bad i could not do any thing with it :/ it was like fook , i ended you taking it back to the plase i bout it and well after the owner tec played with it and seeing all the crap that was on it he took out a hammer and smashed it , i was like "wat thaa",, he told me to go over to this diplay and pick out any laptop i wanted i told him i cant aford it he told me its ok its payed for 0_o yeah i got a way better laptop and it was worth more than my other ,,

moyomongoose

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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@ mudpaws

About 8 years ago, I myself accidentally clicked on a virus that deceitfully looked like it was officially from Firefox.
The only thing my laptop would do after that was play a Bosley hair restoration commercial over and over again.

It cost me $100 to get a tech to straighten it out.

One of my sisters had said, between a laptop that picked up a virus and a laptop that was drop kicked, she'd rather have the one that was drop kicked.
Her reasoning was...With a laptop that was drop kicked, a tech can go through it, find the broken parts, and replace those broken parts.
But with a laptop that picked up a virus, there's no telling what a virus writer did to it. A lot of those viruses have a back door, which means a virus could come back after a tech thought he had cleared it.

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