What was the worst virus you ever had?

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Hdk20

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Post below I was just curious and bored so I made this thread I am really curious to seeing people's worst virus they had on their computer, and I would like to compare it to other peoples!
 
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Hugh9191

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Had one that stopped me accessing the web once, safe mode scanning found nothing so I had to reinstall windoze.
 
laznz1

laznz1

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Um back when i had dail up (5-6 Yrs ago) got an auto dailer and started trying to calls some number in the USA well in all honesty its the only one ive had
 
Buzz1927

Buzz1927

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Someone posted a link a year or 2 ago to where they got a virus, I downloaded it to a test machine, it deleted every exe. file on the comp.

I win :D
 
just a noob

just a noob

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ive had a trojan that never really did anything because we were on dialup so we were never connected :D but, my aunt got an auto-dialer that racked up over 100 dollars in phone calls over the month :S
 
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PabloTeK

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Not really a virus but I managed to create a script which would not only delete the Linux kernel (thankfully only for that one version) it also erased GRUB's config file. Obviously I kinda lost the script because it was a test machine so I just re-installed the OS :( Not really a virus because you needed to run it as root in the first place, plus it just sat there, it never moved or anything.

The worst actual virus was on a spare eMachine that I was taking to bits so I first re-installed Windows XP SP1 (no AV or firewall!) and within 2 minutes of getting online the machine had got a virus causing a shutdown before not letting me boot it again. Plus about 10 adwares in that short space of time!

Win!
 
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Hdk20

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Lol those are all great reply's to this thread. I still want some more though :p but for now the temperarey winner is... I can't pick between all of you lol these are all great ill post my worst virus in a second.
 
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Hdk20

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Okay. The worst virus I must've had was... Where my Toshiba Laptop, well each time I would start it, it would give me a message about some unmountable thing I had no idea what it was but I had to reformat my whole windows.. but yeah it was a big blue screen with an error message. Another one was with my desktop.. where I got a bad virus not sure what it was but it deleted all my Java files lol. There was another one I had a keylogger it got a hold of every credit card number my mom had posted on the net ( she buys alot of crap online) nothing bad happended but we had to get new credit cards social security card number ect ect.. I told my mom never to put that sort of personal information the CPU and I was right.. anyway keep up the good posts.
 
joelmagar

joelmagar

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hmmm I had a pretty weird one that loaded my desktop with tons of files then it started messing with my BIOS so I had to redo everything and had to buy a new XP
 
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Irishwhistle

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I had one that placed icons all over my desktop, program files folder, and start menu... didn't take long and I just reinstalled Windows. That was on Windows 2000 so.... :p
 
Geoff

Geoff

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There was one file that I had several years back that kept getting larger and larger until it took up all the free space on the hard drive, I never let it get to that point so I shut the computer down but I believe it would have either crashed the computer, or made it virtually unusable because it would take up all of the VM.
 
Shane

Shane

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worst virus i had was on Windows xp and when i logged on it would log me back off straight away back to the logon screen.

that was a pain to remove even in safe mode,i think i had to format. :D
 
Mez

Mez

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Heh I learned my lesson from watching you-know-what. I got a Virus on my computer called the "Unknown Virus". It would not let me access any type of videos (yes including porn), and deleted all my pictures!

So know everytime I find a you-know-what sight I want to go to, I check it with Norton first :D

But hey, we all get bored at college sometimes, well the people that go to college.
 
SRcobra

SRcobra

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Mine was where if you clicked on any programme it duplicated it like 100 times, so if i clicked on IE once, it opened it like 100 times, did that with everything.
Had to reformat in the end.
 
teamhex

teamhex

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Its between CKVO Trojan(couldn't get rid of this thing at all, wiped everything and it still kept coming back :( )
Switched to vista and It cant run on vista :)

Or there was one that damaged some hardware, I think it was my HD or something. I wasn't into computers back then.
 
bm23

bm23

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my cousin actually sent me a .txt file and asked me to save it as .url. i was a n00b then so i didnt suspect anything. i did what he told me and after that i had to reformat because the .url file actually made explorer.exe restarts itself indefinitely. later on, i found out that the name of that thing. it was called windows format overflow.
 
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