What is the worst virus you ever had on your pc

[Olger901]

Have you ever had any viruses? I'll bet you do

What virus was the worst virus you ever had??

Mine was Form.A virus which formatted my entire HD including all partitions

[mann]

mine was one that when u open it doesnt do anything then u cant delete it cuze it becomes part of ure system folder and every couple of minutes a picture of 2 men doing....it....would show up on the screen...so i formatted fuck that!

[Stezo2k]

hmm... i was searching for windows xp on Kazza (when the betas was spreaded about) and i downloaded it and tried to install and it wouldnt work, and it kept fckin my pc up so i formatted. Strange that Norton didnt recodnise the virus, my defs were up to date.

Stez

[Allnatural]

Never been infected. Never downloaded one, never received one. Never used anti-virus software. Lucky me.:cool:

[CRi{]v[}iNaL]

a year ago my little bro downloaded an antivirus program off morpheus and sure enough it had a virus on it. it completely wipe out the hard drive and 15 GB of shit that took me years to download not to mention all my homework. i love the irony.

[mann]

lol

[Slougi]

Never had one in 10 years of computing.

[mann]

awesome

[Josep]

well, on the computer that wasn't mine...;) so it was just an experience, they downloaded some ghetto program, restarted the computer, and while restarting it flashed some wierd multicolor crap, and then turned off, then any time the hard drive with the virus on it, was plugged in it would lock up the computer, yea, completely fried;) i've downloaded some bootsie viruses b4 that get elimnated in like a second my norton;)

[Malcolm]

i've had countless CMOS virii, and I made a neat looking Linux virus :D

[Lachp30]

Iv'e only had one virus, the w92.funlove which still infects my old Pentium 2

[Owlman]

Eh kazza sent me some werid worms but my antivirus took care of it

[2fast4u]

never caught a virus ... but wrote one really simple and harmless one and it infected a friends comp. god he was pissed :D

[RPGlover12]

I just caught a virus which fucked up my xp it deleted the explorer , system files , program files , my documents , etc........... it totally fucked it i have to work with win2000 now i dunno it infected 98 and xp not win2000 o_O it was weired though but oh well its a bitch :) norton can't repair it
and after i deleted it it took off my taskbar and my desktob so i will have to reinstall i think :)

[Harteex]

I've had 3 viruses... first one at a time... then all 3 on the same time.... I shouldn't have tried those old Dos boot discs...

But nothing have really happend to me... but my friend got the virus from me and had to reformat...

The viruses were Win95.CIH, Bye, and another one I don't remember the name of.

[Eagle]

Well, my PC never had a serious one. Most were just simple annoyances. My school/work's server got the nimda virus and was never the same again. We spent hours a day trying to fix that thing, but in then end we had to scrap it.

[thecraft]

One of my friends sent me one, but Anti Virus got it immediatly... It did mess up DirectX somehow. Evently I got so pissed off I beat the sh*t out of him.

[Davemc]

i only ever had 1, some trojan of some sort, but i dont think anything happened, norton intercepted it, i got an irc trjan too, and it deleted my mirc,ini, but i didnt really give a shit about that

[Mayco]

i once had the ripper virus (still have it on a floppy, in case i want to infect somebody :)) Other then that, i downloaded a lot of virusses from kazaa, but Mcafee deleted them.

[Olger901]

Well In totally I have had about 4 or 5 virri

1 As I said it was Form.A
2 Is the W97 Loveletter.B (had it 2 times)
3 Once I got a buffer overflow virus through a link in msn.
4 Once on my VERY RUSTY 286 I got a virus from a Diskette I bought in a store
5 On my dad's pc we caught one. WE still don't know what virus it is but it had formatted his HD on a specific date.

[Slougi]

#5 was propably the michelangelo virus, it was pretty wide-spread at some point

[RJARRRPCGP]

Back in early 2003, probably February, 2003 I ended up getting the W32.Pinfi virus
and the virus spreaded to over 100 program files and the virus corrupted some program files on my secondary HDD!!! The virus caused me to get an error when launching setup archive files and thus some programs terminated, because the virus appends junk data to the end of Windows program files and I was required to redownload some software, again, because even when the anti-virus software removed the virus from the program files, because the CRC was changed, some programs would still give me an error message and terminate anyways, because they detected the file change. The W32.Pinfi virus is dangerous, because the virus can spread to over 200 files within a short time. The virus also created a temporary file that Windows won't let me delete.

[vleespet]

The worst one I ever had should be new.napster (and I wasn't even using Napster :P). Had to change the harddisk because of unfixable damage, but that was years ago. I also have a friend who had the win32.pinfi (the virus RJARRRPCGP stated above) spread over a network. That's terrible bad!

[Davemc]

Wayhey, big bump there.
What's that?
Me not making sense up there?
How unusual...

[Allnatural]

Wayhey, big bump there.
What's that?
Me not making sense up there?
How unusual...
Yeah, it's unusual, but it's Waaay Off-Topic so...whatever. I'll let it slide.

Still, RJARRRPCGP = gravedigger

[AlphaWolf]

I had one virus sometime around 1997 that would trash the MBR (master boot record) hence rendering all data on the hard disk useless. It would persist over reformats b/c it was resident in the MBR itself. I would keep antivirus software up to date, but they never were able to detect it. I got rid of it by doing a low level disk format (e.g. write zeros across the entire drive.) Haven't used any antivirus software since because it was so useless, haven't had a virus since either.

Virii seem to get less sophistocated overtime...old virii used to be written using assembly, now you see people distributing them in these cheap scripting languages that only an idiot would need antivirus software to be able to spot. (Some even distribute a copy of mirc.exe with them b/c they run in mIRCs scripting language.)

Only three ways I ever see people get virii on their systems: using internet explorer as their web browser, using outlook express as their email client, or downloading and running every damn thing with the word "free" written on it. Of course there are the remote exploits that windows is full of, but if you NAT yourself then you don't need any of those stupid memory hogging firewall programs that always give you warnings about casual internet traffic just to make you think that they are actually doing something useful.

[ciruZ]

Hmm, I never had a Virus. Got a few attached to mails, but never got infected. Maybe because I use Linux? :P

[Remote]

Have had lots of them and the same probaly goes for most of you, espcially in the old days, thinking ten years back before the cd era but nowdays the only one that bugs me is the one that went like a fire across the globe and shutdowns xp.. so annoying.. ;-)

[NeTo]

The worst virus I have seen are the one i made myself :( . I have never seen in action those virus that mess up your screen or do some other weird things. The closest to one i have seen is msblast. It was funny considering how it worked.

[2fast4u]

http://www.rothenburg-net.de/pub/fun/resurrection.jpg

[Hexidecimal]

W32 Blaster Worm thankfully, thats the worst I've ever had.

[Davemc]

I never got that, am I special?

[vampireuk]

http://www.rothenburg-net.de/pub/fun/resurrection.jpg

Christ could they have revived a older god damn thread?

Ah well since its here, I've never had a virus before, I don't download stupid shit. Like Britney_Christina_naked_make_out!!!!!!.v bs :P

[Falcon4ever]

i did got klez a while ago >_<...

the only real virus i ever had

[Falcon4ever]

the first and only virus i received was klez after a fresh reinstall of windows (forgot to install nav b4 running outlook X_X)

[Falcon4ever]

the first and only virus i received was klez after a fresh reinstall of windows (forgot to install nav b4 running outlook X_X)

:doh:

[Knuckles]

I rarely get viruses, only those from Kazaa that got automaticly removed by norton, and those that I got some months ago, each days (up to 5 each day), an e-mail with a virus in it.. also, time ago, on my old 150MHz, I never installed a antivirus on it. but when I did! ALL the .exe/.com/.bat files had a virus in it!

now, I never had a BIG prob with one like formating or removing stuff. good thing :)

[Zilla]

Win32.CIH

[t0rek]

The worst virus I ever had was a lot of years ago... My PC (a 80286 one) got inffected with a virus called somehow like 1784... I remember that it was used to lock the PC in any moment (And I was running DOS by then) after that the only virus I got was the last year... (W32 blaster) This virus doesn't make thinks like erase the HD data... but it is one of the best... I still remember how I was surprised... the virus just get in my PC, I didn't open any e-mail, not download any file, I just get into Internet and here it was... all thanks to M$ !

[My95ZR2]

I actually have tow virii here at home. I don't know what to exactly call them, cause they're not your normal type virus. The first one isn't that bad. It'll screw up settings and make stuff not work, and sometimes files disappear, but nothing too bad.

The second one is very bad. It deletes files, leaves huge security hole in a system, and basically makes the system it infects a piece of crap. The only way to fix it is to write zeros to the HD and start over.

What are these two virii? My mom and my sister. The road to hell is paved with good intentions :getlost:

Adam

[DrSteveW]

Worst virus I had was that thing that struck on the date of Chernobyl, buggered if I can remember the name of it though. Trashed most of two hard drives.

[sheik124]

I actually have tow virii here at home. I don't know what to exactly call them, cause they're not your normal type virus. The first one isn't that bad. It'll screw up settings and make stuff not work, and sometimes files disappear, but nothing too bad.

The second one is very bad. It deletes files, leaves huge security hole in a system, and basically makes the system it infects a piece of crap. The only way to fix it is to write zeros to the HD and start over.

What are these two virii? My mom and my sister. The road to hell is paved with good intentions :getlost:

Adam
i have that second virus, except 2x of it and each 2x as bad, always playing stupid flash games and reading gay jokes with dumb animations, donwloading trials loaded with spyware, messing with the background, changing my screensavers, and it will occasionaly shut down your pc for no reason :]

[My95ZR2]

I swear I can't wait till they crash the desktop now (I got my own laptop now). I'm gonna be able to prove that it's not me that puts all that ridiculus crap on the system. My sister loves to play those flash games, she loves to download trials, and the best thing is she accepts stuff like commet curser (sp?).

Adam

[sheik124]

I swear I can't wait till they crash the desktop now (I got my own laptop now). I'm gonna be able to prove that it's not me that puts all that ridiculus crap on the system. My sister loves to play those flash games, she loves to download trials, and the best thing is she accepts stuff like commet curser (sp?).

Adam
comet cursor?! she loaded Gator GAIN onto my PC once!!

[Clements]

I had this virus that infected 600+ exe files on my computer and I had a worm at the same time, so I had to format C:\.

I'm much better protected now - learning from mistakes! :P

[Zemu]

I got a virus one time that killed my whole harddisk!!
Don't know what it was...

[AlphaWolf]

the thread from ancient times just wont die....

[s|rens]

Might as well keep it going...

Worst i've had was W32 Blaster. When i first got it i blamed my sisters for downloading junk, then i heard on the radio later that day about a worldwide infection. ;p

[Allnatural]

TWICE, resurrected TWICE



Zemu = gravedigger

[Modem]

Well, if this thread isn't being closed. The weirdest I got was the W95 weird virus. Basically it went around thea harddrive corrupting any and all EXE's it could find. Suffice to say I had to format when I got rid of it. It wasn't even my fault that I got it, either. My friend burned me a CD years ago and he was infected, it somehow made it onto the cd, haha. And no, they weren't even illegal stuff either, just some patches for a few games (such as Halflife). I had a modem back then so it was tough to download large patches. And to top it all off, I only had a limited number of hours a month.

[Zemu]

TWICE, resurrected TWICE



Zemu = gravedigger

hehehe... :P