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Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 10:53:22

Discuss the weirdest and craziest virus that has ever happened to your computer. Heres my example. I was going to listen to some trace music, so I opened the program I use, RealPlayer. It said, before letting me listen to music: Please update to the newer version of RealPlayer -- [ok] [cancel] . There as nothing wrong with this, so I updated. It took about 3 minutes. Everything was going fine when a strange sound came from my computer. On my desktop was an icon that certainly wasn't there before. It was called Norton Security Scan. Before I could do anything, a Norton Scan came up on my computer, and said: Your computer has no viruses. But I knew better than to believe this strange auto-installed Scan, so I went to delete the program. As some of you may imagine, there was no uninstall button to be found. tongue I called the computer whiz in my family to check it out. Eventually it was back to normal, and Norton had been eliminated.

I really hope this doesn't get closed! It's kind of Reading...

dvd4 · 2012-11-26 10:56:04

spyderblade wrote:
it's kind of reading...

Yes is is ...

Nomolos · 2012-11-26 11:08:51

I had one virus. I was programming on Scratch when a text bug appeared and forced me to close the program. I tried again, another text bug.

Suddenly, as I exited Scratch, the computer made a weird noise and the screen went black. I looked at the cords to see if something had been unplugged, but all the plugs were in order.

We finally got our computer working after a couple of hours. But as soon as the desktop lit up, our files started disappearing one after another. After days and days of constant scans and deletion, the computer broke and we had to buy a new one.

Spyderblade wrote:
It was called Norton Security Scan

I hate Norton so much! We didn't renew our membership to it after our free 30 day trial and now there are banners and ads popping up everywhere across the screen saying: "You used to roam the internet with freedom, not caring about what you searched, clicked and downloaded. And the reason was Norton. Renew your membership now!"

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 11:13:45

Nomolos wrote:
I had one virus. I was programming on Scratch when a text bug appeared and forced me to close the program. I tried again, another text bug.

Suddenly, as I exited Scratch, the computer made a weird noise and the screen went black. I looked at the cords to see if something had been unplugged, but all the plugs were in order.

We finally got our computer working after a couple of hours. But as soon as the desktop lit up, our files started disappearing one after another. After days and days of constant scans and deletion, the computer broke and we had to buy a new one.

Wow, that's intense. Sorry about that.

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 11:20:14

Hey, I've got another.
It was during school, and I was supposed to go to some website and learn something about beats, as in music. tongue Well anyways, there were things you could click on, and hear what the beats sounded like. I was bored, so I found a little thing where you could make your own beat and hear it played. As any bored middle school-er would do, I completely loaded the note box with drum beats. lol I played it back. BIG MISTAKE. It lagged, then beeped, then who knows what, then started making a sound that I didn't even know a Windows XP could make. I did a more sensible thing, and closed the website. The sound stayed. I turned off my speakers then turned them on a gain. The sound stayed. I closed everything I had up, turned the monitor and my speakers off, and totally freaked out. After about 5 minutes of running around, I sat down and turned everything on. Thank goodness, the sound was gone.

DigiTechs · 2012-11-26 11:59:07

Meh. I HATE computer viruses. I had one before I had to get my dad to format my PC with Windows 7. He wouldn't let me have it; Every cloud has a silver lining! But it was IRRITATING. It tried to open up command prompt; it even turned off UAC to do it! It also was an MS DOS file (I think it was a .PCF?) - Luckilly I did the right thing and got my local PC expert (namely, my dad tongue ) to fix it.

owetre18 · 2012-11-26 12:47:45

I got a virus that made a pop-up with *cough* nude people on it, and it installed a bunch of *cough* nude images to my computer.

It also deleted anything on my computer that wasn't encrypted.

Very weird Trojan, no?

CheeseMunchy · 2012-11-26 13:07:56

I've never got a virus. I don't even have anti-virus on my computer right now... I need to uninstall norton and get avast...

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 13:20:51

My old computer got a virus where the mouse would wiggle very fast around the screen. It got so bad, we got a new one.

laser314 · 2012-11-26 13:37:38

Once I got a virus that called itself system tool.
Also Norton once thought that the manual to an astronomy tool I got once was a virus.

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 13:40:02

laser314 wrote:
Once I got a virus that called itself system tool.
Also Norton once thought that the manual to an astronomy tool I got once was a virus.

Yeah, Norton is obviously very unreliable. tongue

NeilWest · 2012-11-26 13:47:22

I remember the sudden insanity I felt when I saw a file called crash.dmp on my desktop. One day, a suggested it on the forums and someone said I should click it. I did. Nothing happened. END.

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Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 13:51:15

NeilWest wrote:
I remember the sudden insanity I felt when I saw a file called crash.dmp on my desktop. One day, a suggested it on the forums and someone said I should click it. I did. Nothing happened. END.

lolol, if you have siblings, it was probably them. My brother convinced me a virus was talking to us from the computer when I was 5.

NeilWest · 2012-11-26 13:53:47

Spyderblade wrote:
NeilWest wrote:
I remember the sudden insanity I felt when I saw a file called crash.dmp on my desktop. One day, a suggested it on the forums and someone said I should click it. I did. Nothing happened. END.
lolol, if you have siblings, it was probably them. My brother convinced me a virus was talking to us from the computer when I was 5.

I'm serious bro, that file is still on our desktop, I just put it in a folder when I was clearing up my desktop.

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 13:56:13

NeilWest wrote:
Spyderblade wrote:
NeilWest wrote:
I remember the sudden insanity I felt when I saw a file called crash.dmp on my desktop. One day, a suggested it on the forums and someone said I should click it. I did. Nothing happened. END.
lolol, if you have siblings, it was probably them. My brother convinced me a virus was talking to us from the computer when I was 5.
I'm serious bro, that file is still on our desktop, I just put it in a folder when I was clearing up my desktop.

Really? Have you tried deleting it?

A British person has never called me "bro" before! ^-^

NeilWest · 2012-11-26 13:58:39

Spyderblade wrote:
NeilWest wrote:
Spyderblade wrote:

lolol, if you have siblings, it was probably them. My brother convinced me a virus was talking to us from the computer when I was 5.
I'm serious bro, that file is still on our desktop, I just put it in a folder when I was clearing up my desktop.
Really? Have you tried deleting it?

A British person has never called me "bro" before! ^-^

You Americans must've been brought up by stereotypes!
Anyway, FileCure says that the file is important to a program and deletion isn't suggested, but what program?

nama · 2012-11-26 14:00:14

I've had a few computer viruses, nothing serious yet though.

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 14:02:18

NeilWest wrote:
Spyderblade wrote:
NeilWest wrote:

I'm serious bro, that file is still on our desktop, I just put it in a folder when I was clearing up my desktop.
Really? Have you tried deleting it?

A British person has never called me "bro" before! ^-^
You Americans must've been brought up by stereotypes!
Anyway, FileCure says that the file is important to a program and deletion isn't suggested, but what program?

lol, it was just a joke. tongue I don't seem to have anything called crash on my computer. What model is yours?

jukyter · 2012-11-26 14:04:18

CheeseMunchy wrote:
I've never got a virus. I don't even have anti-virus on my computer right now... I need to uninstall norton and get avast...

my avast thinks that chrome is a virus

CheeseMunchy · 2012-11-26 14:05:22

jukyter wrote:
CheeseMunchy wrote:
I've never got a virus. I don't even have anti-virus on my computer right now... I need to uninstall norton and get avast...
my avast thinks that chrome is a virus

My norton thinks that everything is a virus.
At least it used to before it expired.

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NeilWest · 2012-11-26 14:18:17

Spyderblade wrote:
NeilWest wrote:
Spyderblade wrote:

Really? Have you tried deleting it?

A British person has never called me "bro" before! ^-^
You Americans must've been brought up by stereotypes!
Anyway, FileCure says that the file is important to a program and deletion isn't suggested, but what program?
lol, it was just a joke. I don't seem to have anything called crash on my computer. What model is yours?

Mine is a Dell running Windows Vista with Norton installed.

Spyderblade · 2012-11-26 14:21:38

NeilWest wrote:
Spyderblade wrote:
NeilWest wrote:

You Americans must've been brought up by stereotypes!
Anyway, FileCure says that the file is important to a program and deletion isn't suggested, but what program?
lol, it was just a joke. I don't seem to have anything called crash on my computer. What model is yours?
Mine is a Dell running Windows Vista with Norton installed.

Ooh. Must be a Vista thing. Norton? Well, I've already said.

Firedrake969 · 2012-11-26 15:39:58

Norton is good.

ImagineIt · 2012-11-26 15:46:30

I got one the other day. I deleted it.

NeilWest · 2012-11-26 16:08:11

ImagineIt wrote:
I got one the other day. I deleted it.

One does not simply delete a virus.

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