What's the oldest computer virus you can recall having

I don't know but I recall my antivirus catching over 1000 viruses on my computer when I scanned it for the first time, and deleting half of my games because of it.

Windows, until my good friend Richard Stallman told me it was malware at that I should be using a FSF-approved distribution of GNU/Linux instead

russian porn dialers. remember my dad got mad and had to reinstall windows

I was like 12 at the time, and eventually killed it by formatting. No clue what it was called. It killed performance but not much else. The system was still mostly usable. That was my introduction to safe pirating and the best firewall/anti-virus around, Common Sense. Been using it to great effect ever since.

Also for OP's, as a temporary fix couldn't you just abort the shutdown via command prompt?

>>62317355
This but was to italy.

>>62317296
In 2004 there was this malware called "lop" or some shit that would put icon links to surveys on your desktop and you couldnt delete it.
At first, you had to use something like HijackThis to get rid of it then stuff like Spybot S&D and AdAware could remove it.

w32.sasser.worm
it's a badass motherfucker

>>62317296
Got one when I browsed porn sites. I was 14 at the time and was scared shitless that my parents would find out that I watch porn. Managed to remove it somehow with google and safe mode within a couple of hours.

>>62317407
>and was scared shitless that my parents would find out that I watch porn
I know that feel. When I was a kid, I was also panicking about the FBI showing up to my house to arrest me for looking at porn when I got one of those porn eraser ads.

>>62317296
Michaelangelo

>>62317296
Monkey

PC Optimizer Pro

>>62317505
>Michael
This

A keylogger from trying to crack NOD32.

Winfixer

some virus called something like "total..." which deleted all exes and only exes.

>>62317296
Something based on autorun.inf, it used to reproduce itself every time you plugged a new flashdrive

The classic recycler shit, you know, that one infecting flash memories? That one

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>>62317296
friday the 13th and stoned viruses
that was back in 1992 on my DOS 5.0 286

thank god for central point antivirus

haven't gotten viruses since

>>62317296
Some ransom ware that pretended to be the fbi and lock me out of my pc saying I had CP detected on it
It was the virus that did the most damage to me too, whioe it was easy to remove some girl I was into thought it was real and kinda ruined my chances to get with her until it was too late

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I remember my Mom getting a virus that made all the icons "run away" from the mouse pointer so you couldn't click on them. This was in the late 90s I believe.

But I did do some research on it recently and found out that it was quite likely the "magistr" virus, which turns out to have a really fascinating story behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoYkbKBlbQk

by the way this youtube channel is a total gem. Just some dude who has a hobby of collecting computer viruses, from DOS to Windows 10, and documenting them on his channel.

>>62317296
One that was using "spoolsv.exe" to serve me ads and shit on the desktop.

>>62317296
ILOVEYOU

and Blaster

>>62317452
I was like that until I was about 15 when I decided to teach my father to knock. I was playing TF or some shit abd he walked in, I just screamed I'M WATCHING PORN and he never walked in without knocking again

Now I have my own place and can fap with the door open, feelsgoodman

The supposed "Free Coca-Cola Cup Holder"
if you downloaded it, supposedly you would get a free cup-holder.
so an ad popped up out of nowhere and you'd be forced to click the "i want my cup-holder!" button.
i remember pissing myself cuz i was a normie and didn't know what that'd do to my pc

it just opened your disk tray

>>62317296
An virus i got from a CD .
It would duplicate every folder and add some Russian character to it and would spread through usb.

>>62318340
lovely.

I remember my first and only virus was quite unique
I got it by downloading shit off eMULE
it replaced all thumbnails with pictures of the pink panther and it disapeared on reboot

>>62317296
idk i grew up with Linux