1 time with loveletter worm and 1 time it was some funny program. Year 2001 or something, i did search pictures with Kazaa/Bearshare or similar tool. (edit: i think it was LimeWire.) Someone had infected computer and i downloaded many "picturename.jpg.vbs" -files. Before i clicked that file, i did think there is something wrong with this, filesize is too small, but i wanna know what it is. I wanna know why it's .jpg.vbs extension, why double. and boom, high harddrive activity, it did delete original photos and copy itself. That time i used windows registry saving and restore program to fool some programs and get back 30 days trial. I restored registry and worm was stopped, but i lost many pictures i downloaded from websites. i don't remember what i lost. My brother had some 18 wheeler truck pics and supercars, all gone. I had AV turned on and definitions did know about that one, but real time protection default was set to extension list and .vbs was not one. always when i restored registy, i had to set real time protection to -> All files. it seems i forget to do that. I don't remember how funny program was downloaded, but it was sheep and it did run away my mouse and did wee/piss on icons. edit: kazaa was malware itself i think, but i stopped using it long before that news came out. i also think my version was lite or something, some simple version without ads or what the original had.
Once. W98. Naturally lost everything during format and re-install. That was the last time I ever kept any data on my OS drive. Even though the cost was considerable 20 years ago I have never regretted my choice.
Almost daily, on my LAN. Just want to see how my main PC protected by McAfee endpoint (greyware) can handle the sh*t nicely. Tho, Mcafee with default settings is...not so good. Took couple of weeks to tune and tweak it, but now it protects anythin when attacking via lan puters.
It was this news back then: https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...ources-for-spam-and-similiar-purposes.773960/ Only that forum post works, da source is dead.
I'd forgotten about that. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1140 I used Kazaa Lite, which came without adware.
Yes I have also used Kazaa Lite, I downloaded many MP3 music files with it. After that I switched to Napster. I do remember that I used Orbit Downloader for a while, but I never really trusted it and months later it was revealed to be kinda shady, can't remember exactly what it did. That's why I always ran it under supervision by Sandboxie.
Back when I knew nothing about computer security I got infected multiple times. Was using Avast (4.x at the time, when it still had the MP3 player like GUI.) but it couldn't protect my PC. Someone else helped me clean it up and got me Eset Nod32 which did a better job. After that I started learning about computer security, and while protection did save my ass a few times, I don't think I got actually infected after that.(At least knowingly.) Apart from ESET, over the years I used Spybot S&D, Avast (5.x and later, they really improved their game), Malwarebytes, Kaspersky, Mamutu, EMET, Prevx with SafeOnline(and later WSA), Outpost Firewall, Defensewall, AppGuard, HitmanPro.Alert and probably some others I forgot about I used Limewire instead of Kazaa and later Frostwire. Those also had malware shared but not as much as Kazaa.
