Remember all those computer viruses you used to get? How many

I never got any malware thanks to Common Sense

>>60824229
Common Sense didn't protect from Blaster.

>>60824208
I had that shit back in the day, was the cause of my first reformat, or atleast the first I did on my own. Drivers were a bitch on XP, I remember having to go to the library to get network card drivers because I reformatted and didn't remember to download them to a usb (I had a 128mb stick I think).

I don't miss that part of back in the day.

>>60824208
I've never gotten viruses or worms, blaster included. My Windows XP box was really hardened to remote exploits at that time. 1 listening port on it (port 80), so even on DMZ nmap would find 1 open port and all the other ports as closed.

Local networking didn't work on that computer, obviously enough. Wanted to access Samba? Haha too bad. But it sure was secure.
Until you got local access or got the user (eg me) to visit a malicious page. Then it was about as hard as a wet towel.

>>60824229
common sense didn't protect against blaster, unless common sense is running a third party firewall (XP didn't have a built in firewall until Service Pack 2 which came out on 25 August 2004, whereas Blaster began spreading automatically on August 11, 2003).

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>>60824314
Lol, you didn't use a 3rd party firewall back in the day? That was one of the first things I installed, along with AV that didn't suck.

>>60824383
>>60824314 here
i ran a third party firewall at the time, Zone alarm. I was telling the other anon ( >>60824229 ) that "Common sense" alone didn't protect against blaster or a variety of other malware back in the early XP days.

I had awful problems with the W2K machine my parents used. They had dialup (yes, as late as 2006) and I couldn't get the service packs and patches downloaded faster than the machine would get infected with something remotely.

>>60824314
I had a firewall so must've been why. Can't remember which one exactly I had back then... Filseclab or ZoneAlarm I think.

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>>60824208
>mfw learned about shutdown -a

>>60824390
Running a firewall was common sense, though. NAT or firewall. One of the two.
People knew that having Windows box on network just available for everyone to peer at was a bad idea since Windows 98 days.

The oldest desktop screenshot I have saved even has Zone Alarm in the system tray, and that's from Windows 2000. (I used that instead of WinME)

>>60824208
>Blaster Worm
But that is what I call my peepee.

I was a kid back then who browsed a shitload of sites for games and porn without using antiviruses so I got infected by all sorts of shit. Blaster, Sasser, Trojan Dyfuca, Mydoom, something with aurora in it, etc. I even had BonziBuddy installed at one point. I can't tell you how many times Trend Micro Housecall and Panda Active Scan saved my ass

>that day when SQL Slammer brought down half the internet in like 30 minutes
fun times. It was technically ingenious too, whole thing fit in one UDP packet.

>>60824417
I still think it was retarded that the RPC service (or any service for that matter) was set by default to restart the whole computer upon failure, as opposed to restarting just the service or simply terminating with an error message.

Blaster wouldn't have been nearly as potent if Microsoft hadn't provided the main payload themselves.

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>>60824208

The only virus my computers were ever infected with was due to some flash a classmate gave me on a floppy disc. (No, not porn.)

No Internet connection at the time, so Flash wasn't up-to-date.
Fortunately nothing was lost, but I had to install everything from scratch again.
What a fucking faggot.

>>60824208
Got that thing as soon as I did a fresh one install. Like on first boot after getting nic drivers. Ugh

>>60824753
Kek same for me.

>fresh XP install
>open IE
>go to google.com to find FF download link
>get infected

How did they do it? I imagine some script pinged my IP through some ad on google.com, or my ISP's backbone is just compromised.

>>60824795
Sane people was using ftp at that time, really easy, fast and simple. Through it was opera, not ff at that times.

>>60824208
FUCK THIS.

Yes I remember.

>>60824753
>>60824795
I don't think I even opened a browser, I just had a network cable plugged in and got it on a clean XP install.

Afterwards I used another computer to put things like updates, antivirus and a firewall on a CD, did another format and fresh install with the network cable unplugged, installed that shit off cd before plugging it to the internet.

I think back then I had a bridged connection because I was too dumb to make a routed one with NAT so that would explain it. All ports just open for fucking.

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>>60824208
Thanks for making me feel like an old fuck, OP

I have better memory of winnuke and Back Orifice

>>60824294
samba? you mean smb? samba is just a implementation.

>>60826251
2003 wasn't THAT long ago

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>>60824208
No?
XP was pretty easy to lock down.
As was 2k. Even easier in fact.
Both are still easy to keep secure now.

You gotta go beyond just disabling some shitty Microsoft services.
You really need to dig deep to disable the stupid broken shit in that OS.
Not only disable, but ENABLE things that weren't enabled.

Disabling loads of legacy LAN shit will help. Windows was an OS built without the internet in mind and was horribly trust-based. More so, it was built with a hatred of the internet. Microsoft hated the idea. Then they tried to take control of it with IE bundling and ActiveX.
It got built on top of itself so many times that all this legacy broken shit came with it. Fast forward to the internet becoming a little more mainstream in the 2000s and that became a huge problem.
Cut out all that broken shit and XP is a tank.
Install PoS on top and it is a tank made of pure diamond, the hardest metal known the man.

Internet Zones has a hidden zone that applies to the local computer. It is disabled by default.
Enabling it in registry then disabling everything in that zone locks down XP so fucking much.
But equally it also fucks with some shitty software that only business still used. (and still use today! Cunts)
Pic related.

>>60824397
This used to happen to me on XP back in the day. Sometimes I got infected connecting to bad dial up numbers

reminder that viruses wouldn't have been so bad if Active X wasn't such a piece of shit

>>60824208
Never got it since I was pretty careful about my limewire downloads. I did have a few spooky virus episodes where I learned about combofix. My childhood mind would always panic went it came to virus shit, I thought I could just fix it if I was fast enough to shut off the computer and system restore or delete the files.

>>60826373
Who the fuck cares what Microsoft calls their shitty malware installation protocol.

>>60824795
>>60826215
Some viruses/botnets were actively combing all known IP addresses for vulnerable ports.

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These days the antivirus software IS the virus.

>>60824795
>How did they do it? I imagine some script pinged my IP through some ad on google.com, or my ISP's backbone is just compromised.

They probably were using the tracer t command, explanation of how it works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM

So you just got unlucky that a hacker was viewing the IPs on Google at the same time you visited.

>>60824741
>The only virus my computers were ever infected with was due to some flash a classmate gave me on a floppy disc. (No, not porn.)
>No Internet connection at the time, so Flash wasn't up-to-date.
>Fortunately nothing was lost, but I had to install everything from scratch again.
>What a fucking faggot.
Lol you got punked

>>60826373
can attackers use samba to inject or gain access to windows machines from linux? or is it only windows/smb to windows/smb only.