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What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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how I haven't. As a kid I used to pirate stuff from tons of shady websites without any antivirus software on an outdated Windows XP.

[–] zelifcam@fosstodon.org 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

Yup, it isn't unlikely that it was part of a bot net