The worst computer viruses of all time

[surferdude]

If you haven't experienced a computer virus yet, just wait -- you probably will.

Fortunately, you missed the real heyday of computer viruses when anti-virus software wasn't very widely used, and virus attacks caused millions of dollars in damages overnight. Today's viruses can still be nightmarish, but for the average user, cleanup is considerably easier than it was just a few years ago, when the only solution in many cases was reformatting your hard drive and starting from scratch (and even that didn't do the trick sometimes). http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/87095

[randiroo76073]

LOL! Been there Done that in my first year, was a complete noob & dummy to boot :cjlol: Had format/reinstall down pat, with a big box of 3.5 floppies for backup :hammer:

[jbs3645]

What Randy said. First DOS was on 5 1/4 :)

I guess this guys writes to "young" people. But seriously, who today hasn't been zapped by something? There is so much out there that it is difficult not to fall prey to something. Just one of the reasons that I switched to Linux.

john

[boilerman]

While I was at Sams purchasing my first computer I met a fellow who had experienced a major nasty. He was at Sams to purchase a new HDD. He figured it was easier to put a new HDD in than to waste time with the infected old HDD. I picked up a Norton AV disk that day.

[Bruce]

While I was at Sams purchasing my first computer I met a fellow who had experienced a major nasty. He was at Sams to purchase a new HDD. He figured it was easier to put a new HDD in than to waste time with the infected old HDD. I picked up a Norton AV disk that day.
Before I would Purchase a New HDD I would Zero Write the Original, if it came to that.
I had Norton on a Computer years ago and got infected 3 times. I finally Dumped it. It was a Bitch to remove as it inbeds itself all over the computer.

[boilerman]

But I had been using Norton products on my work computer before I retired. Had no trouble with it. And as long as I used it I had no real problem with Norton. Now I find Norton limiting things so much that I have abandoned Norton. Not because the software did not work.

I just do not like having to buy the same software again and again in order to make Symantec more profitable.

[jbs3645]

boilerman,

I agree with you on not liking to buy the same software again and again. Another reason I switched to Linux.

john