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What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

God, I remember how when I was like 8 years old I infected the home computer with a super annoying Adware.

I have no idea how it got in, if I was just hanging out on the Cartoon Network site playing games, but it happened, it was horrible. Every time I turned on the computer it played a video of a woman talking in a strange language and advertising something I don't remember what it was. I think in the end they had to format the hard drive, that's how insidious that shit was.

Another vaguely related event is when I supposedly messed up my mother's first laptop by downloading music from Ares. I say "supposedly" because I doubt it was because of that, but because I was taking a bath while I was handling it. My mother loves to talk about it every time she hears the phrase "Computer Virus".