When last did your computer had a virus?

When last did your computer had a virus?

  • Recently

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Within last 6 months

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Last year or two

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • That's a name I've not heard in a long time

    Votes: 80 69.0%

  • Never

    Votes: 20 17.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 9 7.8%
  • Total voters
    116
It's been a long time since any virus ever actually took hold.... the last one was that stupid trojan that makes copies of all your folders because of some idiot sticking his drive in strange places without ever bothering with an AV.....

Now because of ESET and ublock I never even get the random ad virus anymore.
 
rambo919 said:
It's when did your computer last get a virus.... not when did YOU last get a virus.

What's her name? Gonorrhea or Syphilis?
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Listen here
I never trust anyone that can spell gonorrhea
Something you wanna tell us?
 
Over 15 years for me I think. I just use windows defender. Granted I mostly do legal now, but I do occasionally hit the high seas for stuff but guess I have been lucky with that so far as nothing bad has happened. These days most bad stuff I hear of is people clicking on stupid links. I am very good at not clicking stupid links which I think helps.

I also think virus's got around a lot better when we used to copy from HDD to HDD or over LANS as a primary means of file sharing. Now that its all uncapped internet the internet itself scans for stuff I suspect. Back in varsity many moons back almost every second external HDD had a virus and I kept AVG very up to date back then to protect myself while still getting the latest episode of Heroes and Smallville.
 
Not even once in the peak of my internet shenanigans (that I'm aware of). Yet you get these people who lend you a flashdrive and it's battle-stations code red when you insert it.
 
saor said:
Not even once in the peak of my internet shenanigans (that I'm aware of). Yet you get these people who lend you a flashdrive and it's battle-stations code red when you insert it.
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We once had a client's machine have over 1 million viruses & malware, we took over the IT from a previous company... I guess they were not proactively monitoring their clients lol

They said they had been complaining for years that the PC is slow and strange things keep popping up other IT people would say its fixed, brought that PC back to the office and straight wipe didn't even keep an ounce of data
 
I had someone in the office who executed a ransomware attachment on an email. This was when BTC was still cheap as chips. Fsckers encrypted all our files on the network. Didn't have backups in place long story.

Ended up paying like R5k in BTC to get the file to decrypt all our stuff. I shat bricks for a few days.
The other day I remembered I must still have some BTC left over in my wallet on that old PC I was using at the time. So I started it up and found all the details of where the BTC was stored etc.

Scored a nice R18k worth of BTC mahala that was just lying there all these years.
 
W@P said:
I had someone in the office who executed a ransomware attachment on an email. This was when BTC was still cheap as chips. Fsckers encrypted all our files on the network. Didn't have backups in place long story.

Ended up paying like R5k in BTC to get the file to decrypt all our stuff. I shat bricks for a few days.
The other day I remembered I must still have some BTC left over in my wallet on that old PC I was using at the time. So I started it up and found all the details of where the BTC was stored etc.

Scored a nice R18k worth of BTC mahala that was just lying there all these years.
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nonbinarynude.png.exe?
 
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