• @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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    824 months ago

    Why aren’t there viruses like this? Everyone wants to hurt your computer. Do something dumb like that.

    Or a screamer virus. That could bring the world to its knees.

    • @HakFoo
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      524 months ago

      My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with “I broughted you a pwesent w” energy.

      • Karyoplasma
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        154 months ago

        The “you are an idiot” one with the pop-up that runs away from your mouse cursor was hilarious.

    • I wrote a “virus” in college, which basically:

      1. took a screenshot of the entire desktop
      2. displayed screenshot full-screen on top of other windows
      3. would only go away if you typed “@sugar_in_your_tea pwned me” or something

      Oh, and it started on startup, so rebooting wouldn’t fix it. :)

      • Tekhne
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        44 months ago

        I did one similar! Used autohotkey to hide the task bar at random intervals and pop up a warning that said “system out of memory”. Only way to get it back was autohotkey or a reboot. It would restart daily and on login so it would keep happening. And I hid it as “Nvidia game scanner service.exe” in the Nvidia bloatware folder so it looked innocent. Had a good laugh about that one

      • @ma1w4re@lemm.ee
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        44 months ago

        bro I was thinking of this EXACT idea around the time you sent this message, how many more evidence do I need to conclude that this world is a simulation 💀💀

    • SeekPie
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      84 months ago

      I think that’s because most viruses aren’t made for fun but for a specific reason (i.e to steal money from someone’s computer).