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Did you guys get a lot of viruses in the 00s? I remember bumping into it more back in the good old disk days, where we got infected with skin-to-floppy contact, as the lord intended.
I didn’t but I wasn’t downloading random suspicious crap off the Internet either. I’m not sure I even saw the famous ones like I Love You or Anna Kournikova. I probably wouldn’t have been hit, though, since I’d also been taught not to open random, unexpected email attachments.
I was downloading a bunch of suspicious crap, but I also was... you know, not opening executables? I feel like you heard a lot about more sophisticated attacks back then, but most of the bad stuff was super obvious. But maybe my experience is not typical, I don't know.
Only noobs get got and I didn't get gotted
Yep, your choices were get good or get got
That was my experience. If I did want to check an executable because I was getting a cracked copy of something I had a piece of shit computer that wasn't connected to anything where I could move the file and test it.
Most of the malware was hilariously unoptimized and would grind the piece of shit to a halt immediately. I had a stolen copy of Deep Freeze from work so a quick reboot put everything back.
There was a special time in the XP heyday before WiFi routers (hell, just routers even) were common for home users. Without some kind of AV, loads of folk were basically just rawdogging the Internet with ADSL modems.
Simply being connected this way long enough at the height of the MS Blaster worm would almost guarantee a drive-by infection.
I once installed pirated Counter Strike from a CD and got Hantaner.A