Worst virus you have ever gotten

[Guest]

Yeah,  God is ingrained in my brain though,  like there is litterally NO WAY no matter how hard I try to not beileve.   But right now I consider myself a non-practicing Christian, I occasionally go to church, rarely follow the catholic rules though

I was raised Catholic, but church was basically being dragged to a prison... I know all the Bible stories, went to all the classes, and never gained a goddamn thing... (pardon the pun )

[Guest]

Something about Windows Genuine Advantage, cleaned that shit right up though.

Something about 'Please Activate Your Copy of Windows', must of been a virus... 'fixed' that right up as well

[Polyvalent]

She did?

 

I'm not that lucky, unfortunately.

[Leonard]

Believe it or not but i have not gotten a virus/malware since i had my first laptop in 2003 before that i never really used PCs other than what was in work and those had every virus you could think of but i was not the IT guy i am now so i left that shit alone.

[flibberdipper]

I had one that tried to open everything in Adobe Reader. Even Adobe Reader.

[Misanthrope]

Something about 'Please Activate Your Copy of Windows', must of been a virus... 'fixed' that right up as well

 

It actually can absolutely be considered malware due to false positives:

According to an editorial on the arstechnica.com technology website, WGA reported around 22% of 500 million Windows computers as failing the test; of these less than 0.5% were due to pirate software, with the balance (over 20%, or 90% of all positives) related to non piracy issues. Microsoft "refused to comment on the rate of pure false positives" beyond saying it was "under 1%" (or as stated, at most around 5 million users affected).[39]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage

[Guest]

 

It actually can absolutely be considered malware due to false positives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage

OMG this is great. Now I have an excuse

[Tie Lightning]

My mom wanted to use my computer cause i have a 32" monitor, and she only uses Firefox...so she downloaded Firefox and kept clicking next and somehow managed to install the ask toolbar. MySearchDial, and Babylon. It was all good cause my HDD died a week later:) 

[Sors]

Many years ago we had a epidemic of the Sasser worm, this virus would infect a PC just by being connected to the internet, you didn't had to visit a bad site, download a file, nothing more than just being connected to the internet was enough to get infected.

 

An infected PC would scan random IP addresses, and when it found a pc would use a windows vulnerability to infect that new pc, wich would then start scanning more IP addresses.

[rambi36]

I remember I got one on my grandma's old Gateway Pentium 4 computer a while ago from trying to download a Pokemon ShinyGold ROM. I was 10 at the time and didn't know a lot about computers so yeah...

[8uhbbhu8]

First proper virus I got was that fake RCMP child porn virus that demands $200 via credit card to unlock your computer. Shut the thing down after a full day of working on it. Took the Kaspersky, AVG, and Bitdefender Rescue CDs (USB Versions) to wipe the F***** off my PC. Now I plan to keep those Rescue cds on me at all times. It took me hours of research to find these because I barely new anything about this stuff back then.  Never Running Windows Security Essentials again.

[MEC-777]

Norton. 

[iruixos]

I remember years and years ago when Vista was brand new, I downloaded a program called "PowerISO" and shortly afterwards, my OS was f**ked. Had to do a reinstall.

[Guest]

I can avoid viruses, but my friend cannot... I'd say the worst one he got was one that disabled his program uninstaller so you couldn't get rid of it. I laughed when I figured this out....

[Imaginaerum]

The W32.Sasser.worm was the worst I got. I knew nothing about avoiding viruses then, I didn't even know they existed until that stupid thing starting shutting down my computer.

[DarkEnergy]

One crashed my anti-virus. 

 

But the worse I would say was in 6th grade-a looooong time ago on the school computers (running xp). I was on some site (don't remember) and all of a sudden it lagged, then some control panel or "my computer opened" and 2 red numbers appeared on the left of the window saying "threats detected xxx" x=number. It kept rising and rising, got into 3 digit numbers, warning were popping up and everything. It was like in the movies but real lol. I couldn't even turn off the computer because of errors saying it couldn't shut down, I did a hard shut down.

[Mooshi]

AIDs....wait....wut

 

 

 

 

 

I laughed inappropriately to that. >w>;

 

To answer the OP question, it's been forever since I got a major virus that required reinstallation of Winders and this is coming from someone who doesn't even use anti virus anymore, I use common sense in not clicking every flash ad in existence.

[DarkEnergy]

I remember years and years ago when Vista was brand new, I downloaded a program called "PowerISO" and shortly afterwards, my OS was f**ked. Had to do a reinstall.

I've used PowerISO before. No problems

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

Uh, I've never personally had any that were that bad. I did have a ransomware once, when I messed up, and didn't test the site in my VM. That was a minor bitch to get rid of. Worst I've had to deal with though, was a customer who's system I just wiped. Ran some scans, and each came back with 1k+ results... I wasn't going to deal with that. Just, burn it in a fire, lol.

[iruixos]

I've used PowerISO before. No problems

 

Must've been the download source then. Oh well, haven't gone back to it since

[zsanfusa]

NSA :mellow:      everybody's got it..

No joke, try this one -- doesn't it sound a little like the US government?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

[StillAzure]

I don't even remember tbh, it's been ages ago since I last got a virus.

[Brendson]

Whatever I'm fighting now.

 

Started with a search hijacker, cleaned with Mbam, trojan appeared after restart, cleaned with Mbam, PUPs appeared after restart, cleaned with Mbam, trojan appeared after restart, cleaned with Mbam... currently waiting on results.

[Sharif]

I did ones but don't remember what it was 

the funny thing is my friend was having some trouble and i released its because of malware so i told him to instal malwarebytes

he get 403 treat results................... 

[Cryptonite]

I'm sure all of us have gotten some type of malware at some point. I know I have. One time my uncle came over and did a scan and found over 400 things on Malwarebytes. We've all had our bad days, so tell yours and what happened.

That one I got, but then I didn't because I know to pc doi >__<