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maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago

What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware?

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What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware?

maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago
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  • whoareu
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    10 months ago

    TBH I never had one

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      10 months ago

      Me too, and I’m surprised how I haven’t. As a kid I used to pirate stuff from tons of shady websites without any antivirus software on an outdated Windows XP.

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        @maliciousonion @kionite231 that you know of …. You didn’t have any software installed to tell you otherwise.

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          • xilliah@beehaw.org
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            Yup, it isn’t unlikely that it was part of a bot net

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