shoutouts to that time I came back from work when I was still living with my parents to find my younger brother had used my pc on the sly and was probably looking for porn, and had installed a bunch of dialer malware onto my pc.
which couldn't connect to any phone line or anything because I was on a Cable connection, not ADSL or dialup, thus utterly negating most of the negative effects they might have had.
It was kinda adorable and a little sad really on the program's part.
@Nine what does dialer malware do?
@Felthry Back in the like, early 90s, or something, I had a Dr Solomon's Virus Encyclopedia book which detailed a wholllleee bunch of viruses, and in quite great detail, their effects, the exact manner in which they all infected files and systems, and what effects they'd have on them. It was nicely detailed and I loved just sitting and reading it.
@Felthry yep. I actually had a real interest in older viruses and stuff because whilst they all pretty much did the same thing (expand file sizes of .com and .exe files, corrupt files, erase files, infect either the MBR or FAT (or other things I forget exactly), they each did it in subtly different ways, some worked harder at hiding themselves, some only did damage ACCIDENTALLY, and all invariably had interesting visual effects deliberately coded into them. It was fascinating.