I remember the first virus I ever became aware of was the "I love you" virus. Email virus if I remember correctly. Like you got an email with the subject saying "I love you" back before spam was well known, so you'd think someone you knew was in love with you and open it! Happened when I was at school in the mid 90's and I remember it being a big thing at the time.
My first virus was the 'junkie' virus. Friend gave me a game at high school (1995) then the next day he brought an anti-virus for me to install because he found out he had the virus and gave it to me 🤣Can't remember what anti-virus it was now, maybe a really early version of AVG. Anyway, that's how I learned about viruses and cleaning them, ha.
Man I fkn LOVE the Era of TV and before the internet especially the 80s and 90s where TV shows peaked. Only in the 80s could you make a show like this especially an entire episode on just the couple of viruses that were around Random people's computers and making a whole episode dedicated to it. Such good days. Each episode people actually learned something and WANTED to learn. Today, kids can be Einsteins yet they rot their brains watching fools like Jake Paul or they make ugly faces on tiktok and in class cuss out and disrespect their teachers while everyone records and cheers the disrespectful APE on, no one stands up to defend the teacher because kids today are in a hive mind, they're DESPERATE to fit in and be liked and have friends, so they'll copy everyone else and won't dare to defend the teacher and shut down. The disrespectful APE because they're so afraid the rest of the hive mind drones will be like "omg eww did she like try to defend the teacher from our crazy psychotic hive mind ape like disrespectful behavior? Omg loser she's no longer our friend everyone, you know what that means, she's a loser" youth today are so fearful of this that they sell themselves short and become drones to fit in
26:52 Whoa, Nintendo being anti-consumer and anti-competitive even back in 1989? The tech world changed enormously in 30 years but some things never change...
Putting some perspective on this. The issues that Atari was suing Nintendo over were preventative measures that Nintendo was taking to curtail the factors that led to the video game crash.
For anyone into retro computers: Viruses from back in the day can STILL damage your system today! I had a nasty "Saddam Virus" on one of my Amiga disks. Luckily I had most of my disks write protected, so it didn't spread that much, but it's still hard to get rid of. Lucky for us, there's also still virus scanners you can use on old systems (in my case, ami(.)net was my rescue), that have periodically updated virus databases. One of the most vicious virus from the Amiga days was the Lamer Exterminator. It managed to remain undetectable inside the boot block and was RAM resident (that means, it would remain inside the computer's RAM even after a warm reboot, infecting other disks as soon as you put them into the disk drive). It would slowly but surely overwrite disk blocks with the string "LAMER!", rendering the data unrecoverable.
Around 1989 I bought a book about computer viruses, to start learning about them. It was written by McAfee (whom I did not know at the time). I remember it mentioned the Brain virus, that was, as explained in the book, an attempt of working on floppies copy protection.
@11:04 - The original FluShot was corrupted by a virus. I can't find info on this anywhere but this is an interesting tidbit of info that should be known...
LanIost postulations pre script punch card modes of DEC,check it,they went be zero act Quaker quackery we will all be killed by your machines sir,boss off?
The first computer virus that I encountered was probably one on the Commodore 64. It erased a whole floppy iirc. I think the first virus on PC that I saw was something named "Monkey", also on a floppy, but good thing it got auto-killed by an antivirus. I just googled it & it says that Stoned/Monkey virus is from 1991. If that's the virus, then that's just about the right era that my floppy was from.
My first virus was the 'Junkie' virus, got it in high school when my friend shared a game with me on 3.5" disks. I don't even remember what Junkie did now; I think it screwed with boot-ups or gave you false HDD size reports? Something like that. Nothing major, just a nuisance. Anyway, it was my initiation to viruses, ha.
I started to look into this because i was hoping that there might be an interview with him in this eposode. Whatever - John would have been a great guest in this episode. McAfee VirusScan was established since the early 80s and commonly used. John had become Multimillionaire and was doing fine. It was 5 years later that he turned his back on the business and sold his company. I really wonder what he would have said. But i want to believe, that he would have been honest and that he would have spoken rather openly. It's snake oil after all. And I am quite astonished, that people had such an opinion even in 1989. They were pretty sure that these "vaccines" would not help at all because they could not identify every single new attack vector. I wonder what John would have said. It was his business after all... And i believe, that he could have done many things and after all that he must have believed in anti-virus at least in some point in his life. He was a dazzling personality. I miss him no matter what.
NetBus for the win! I'll never forget when back in the late 90's I was chatting to some guy, probably on mIRC. I had sent him the file and I was able to write random things in the chat, to myself. Target: I'm gay. Me: I don't care. Target: I'm not gay. I didn't write that, I'm not gay! Me: What do you mean? You just said that you're gay. That was pretty funny to a fifteen year old kid, still kind of is =;)
Strange how old viruses waited for a specific day lol Guess it's more impactful that way if you wanna make a big splash and show. Early viruses were more about attention than making money. Don't quite know what's worse though...An attention seeker or a greedy crook?
@@marctronixx thanks. The thumbnail looked horrible. The huge glasses didn't help. Close up and ignoring the glasses, she looks cute and sweet. It is funny that they used the horror themed music around the computer virus discussion and her activities too.
Don't you hate it when you're in the lab doing science work and Stewart Cheifet stands right next to you talking loudly about computer viruses?
I always wait for the other person to look up and say, "Who are you and how did you get in here?"
Its nice to see Gary happy
I remember the first virus I ever became aware of was the "I love you" virus. Email virus if I remember correctly. Like you got an email with the subject saying "I love you" back before spam was well known, so you'd think someone you knew was in love with you and open it! Happened when I was at school in the mid 90's and I remember it being a big thing at the time.
I was doing desktop support when that happened, early in my IT career. That and Melissa made my life hell.
My first virus was the 'junkie' virus. Friend gave me a game at high school (1995) then the next day he brought an anti-virus for me to install because he found out he had the virus and gave it to me 🤣Can't remember what anti-virus it was now, maybe a really early version of AVG. Anyway, that's how I learned about viruses and cleaning them, ha.
Man I fkn LOVE the Era of TV and before the internet especially the 80s and 90s where TV shows peaked. Only in the 80s could you make a show like this especially an entire episode on just the couple of viruses that were around Random people's computers and making a whole episode dedicated to it. Such good days. Each episode people actually learned something and WANTED to learn. Today, kids can be Einsteins yet they rot their brains watching fools like Jake Paul or they make ugly faces on tiktok and in class cuss out and disrespect their teachers while everyone records and cheers the disrespectful APE on, no one stands up to defend the teacher because kids today are in a hive mind, they're DESPERATE to fit in and be liked and have friends, so they'll copy everyone else and won't dare to defend the teacher and shut down. The disrespectful APE because they're so afraid the rest of the hive mind drones will be like "omg eww did she like try to defend the teacher from our crazy psychotic hive mind ape like disrespectful behavior? Omg loser she's no longer our friend everyone, you know what that means, she's a loser" youth today are so fearful of this that they sell themselves short and become drones to fit in
12:38 with a last name like that, he's practically asking for his hard disk to be infected
I see. You mean it would never happened if his name was "Umount"?
@@lucius1976 Correct. Could be worse... at least his name isn't _Root_
26:52 Whoa, Nintendo being anti-consumer and anti-competitive even back in 1989? The tech world changed enormously in 30 years but some things never change...
Putting some perspective on this.
The issues that Atari was suing Nintendo over were preventative measures that Nintendo was taking to curtail the factors that led to the video game crash.
For anyone into retro computers: Viruses from back in the day can STILL damage your system today! I had a nasty "Saddam Virus" on one of my Amiga disks. Luckily I had most of my disks write protected, so it didn't spread that much, but it's still hard to get rid of.
Lucky for us, there's also still virus scanners you can use on old systems (in my case, ami(.)net was my rescue), that have periodically updated virus databases.
One of the most vicious virus from the Amiga days was the Lamer Exterminator. It managed to remain undetectable inside the boot block and was RAM resident (that means, it would remain inside the computer's RAM even after a warm reboot, infecting other disks as soon as you put them into the disk drive). It would slowly but surely overwrite disk blocks with the string "LAMER!", rendering the data unrecoverable.
Oh man, I forgot all about the Saddam virus. What a blast from the past.
And yeah, those boot sector ones were always the worst.
Around 1989 I bought a book about computer viruses, to start learning about them. It was written by McAfee (whom I did not know at the time). I remember it mentioned the Brain virus, that was, as explained in the book, an attempt of working on floppies copy protection.
@11:04 - The original FluShot was corrupted by a virus.
I can't find info on this anywhere but this is an interesting tidbit of info that should be known...
LanIost postulations pre script punch card modes of DEC,check it,they went be zero act Quaker quackery we will all be killed by your machines sir,boss off?
@@stevebez2767 wtf?
Well it's a very basic antivirus, no wonder it was corrupted. I mean I'd believe it even if it wasn't.
The first computer virus that I encountered was probably one on the Commodore 64. It erased a whole floppy iirc. I think the first virus on PC that I saw was something named "Monkey", also on a floppy, but good thing it got auto-killed by an antivirus. I just googled it & it says that Stoned/Monkey virus is from 1991. If that's the virus, then that's just about the right era that my floppy was from.
My first virus was the 'Junkie' virus, got it in high school when my friend shared a game with me on 3.5" disks. I don't even remember what Junkie did now; I think it screwed with boot-ups or gave you false HDD size reports? Something like that. Nothing major, just a nuisance. Anyway, it was my initiation to viruses, ha.
At Around 20:00 they start talking about file permissions this is something that Unix was using before the Mac
Self-respecting virus. The deadliest, and most respectable kind!
And the problem with programs these days is they just don't respect themselves 😆
i can hear McAffee laughin in distance
I started to look into this because i was hoping that there might be an interview with him in this eposode. Whatever - John would have been a great guest in this episode. McAfee VirusScan was established since the early 80s and commonly used. John had become Multimillionaire and was doing fine. It was 5 years later that he turned his back on the business and sold his company. I really wonder what he would have said. But i want to believe, that he would have been honest and that he would have spoken rather openly. It's snake oil after all. And I am quite astonished, that people had such an opinion even in 1989. They were pretty sure that these "vaccines" would not help at all because they could not identify every single new attack vector. I wonder what John would have said. It was his business after all... And i believe, that he could have done many things and after all that he must have believed in anti-virus at least in some point in his life. He was a dazzling personality. I miss him no matter what.
And yes. I can hear him laughing too!
grown to love GK
25 years later, Nintendo still sues everyone for even attempting to understand their consoles and games. And destroys people's lives in the process.
No one else going to mention how the thumbnail looks like it's from some analog horror film? No? Just me?
same!!!!!! i immediately saw that in the thumbnail!
I remember "Guru meditation" virus from my unclé´s Amiga.
That wasn't a virus, it's just a built in error message.
27:37 Skynet...
Nasa went to the moon and back but don't got virus protection XD
Most annoying virus to fileserver admin was Brontok.
GOTCHA HELLO !! lol
The Eggman HELLO
Give the Piss Stone back to Sonic.
NetBus for the win!
I'll never forget when back in the late 90's I was chatting to some guy, probably on mIRC. I had sent him the file and I was able to write random things in the chat, to myself.
Target: I'm gay.
Me: I don't care.
Target: I'm not gay. I didn't write that, I'm not gay!
Me: What do you mean? You just said that you're gay.
That was pretty funny to a fifteen year old kid, still kind of is =;)
Strange how old viruses waited for a specific day lol Guess it's more impactful that way if you wanna make a big splash and show. Early viruses were more about attention than making money. Don't quite know what's worse though...An attention seeker or a greedy crook?
When does Charles Manson appear like in the thumbnail?
That's an Asian woman lol
@@jwr2904 what time does she show in the video? Can you share a time stamp like the minutes and seconds?
@@IARRCSim12:23
@@marctronixx thanks. The thumbnail looked horrible. The huge glasses didn't help. Close up and ignoring the glasses, she looks cute and sweet. It is funny that they used the horror themed music around the computer virus discussion and her activities too.
@@IARRCSim lol yeah exactly
FIrst time ive had to SLOW a video down.
oh thats hilarious... all earths land and space assets in 4 microseconds..... paaaahaaaahaaahaaaaaa
Hahahaaa,Just crazy synchro starter chord music so!!!!
Full piece is here on RUclips. Called byte by byte ruclips.net/video/1y_Kf8rolT8/видео.html
@@rartolak Great find thank you !