What's the worst computer virus you've ever had?

The reason I ask this is because somehow that XP Internet Explorer 2010 crap got on my computer and it took like 2 hours to get it off.

So I ask you, what is the worst virus you've ever gotten?

I've got one called Alureon.G right now.

Linking me to spyware websites whenever I'm on the web, running a Malwarebytes scan as we speak...

My worst was just a pop-up one. Never had one serious enough to cause any damage.

the worst I ever had was the one that would give you an error window saying something along the lines of "A fatal error has occurred, and your computer will shut down in 60 seconds. Save all your documents." Something like that. And at the top of it was a freaking timer counting down from 60 seconds. After that it would just shut down. The X at the top of the window was non-clickable, so no way to exit it.

At the time I only had 56k internet, and it was also the only computer in the house, so looking online for a solution was extremely difficult. I think I figured out on my own that the "error" wondow only popped up if i was online for too long. So I'd connect briefly enough to do a google search, disconnect, connect, click a link that seemed to have a fix, etc etc. don't remember how I actually disabled the virus, it was 6 or 7 years ago. But it was brutal =( Think I had to click start andsomehow forcefully shut down the program, and not through the task manager either, it was deeper in the system than that.

Googled and found a wiki page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_%28computer_worm%29

I HATE YOU STUPID BLASTER!!!

I'm not sure what it did to the computer, but on the Anti-Virus thing it said I had a trojan.

I use OS X and Linux so I don't get viruses anymore. The closest I've gotten to a virus is a game you can download for OSX called Lose/Lose.

anti-virus 08 i think it was called. it told me i had a virus and someone in my family probably clicked to download it. luckily it was a crappy computer

it gave me a lot of pop ups and would go to the one site. it also froze the computer a lot espicially while i was playing games on it

I use OS X and Linux so I don't get viruses anymore. The closest I've gotten to a virus is a game you can download for OSX called Lose/Lose.

Mercury_May2112

I use OS X and Linux so I don't get viruses anymore. The closest I've gotten to a virus is a game you can download for OSX called Lose/Lose.

Mercury_May2112

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I use OS X and Linux so I don't get viruses anymore. The closest I've gotten to a virus is a game you can download for OSX called Lose/Lose.

ITzCobra

My worst was pestering maleware which changed my desktop background into a biohazard symbol which if clicked took u to a website, created icons on my toolbar linking me to websites, and redirected my searches.

At the time I had McAfee which did a whole lot of shart. Most of these types of viruses are weak but the maleware I had was so bad that it even ran in safe mode so I couldn't take it off. I was forced to reformat my hard drive.

I use OS X and Linux so I don't get viruses anymore. The closest I've gotten to a virus is a game you can download for OSX called Lose/Lose.

Had on that locked everything on my comp and would link me to a site to buy an anti virus software. No option to remnove it forced me to to a system wipe

I've had a few over the years. The worst was probably once I hit something (stupid me) it froze my computer then logged me off. At the time, I think my dad was about to do a system restore or something, but that gave me a scare.

The one I'm currently on seems to be "clean" but every time I start it up, the start menu bar vanishes for a few seconds, then reappears when ObjectDock loads. It might be some messed up/corrupted file, but I have reason to believe it was my fault :P. Other than that, I don't think it's affected anything else here.

I don't think if this was like a "keylogger" virus, or whatever you kids call these things, but someone charged some tickets to Alaska to my dad's credit card, which the credit card company found out and stopped luckily. It's either somebody got a hold of the credit cards and stole our info, or we bought something on the virus infected computer and that's how. Regardless, I'm kind of paranoid of buying stuff online now.

I don't think I've ever had a virus on my computer...:)

I have been lucky on viruses. Never caught one as far as I know at least.

However! I did cause a virus onto my brothers system unintentionally. It happened when I installed a pirate version of Mechwarrior 4 years ago. His computer never worked the same again until he replaced the hard-drive and motherboard both. When it started to install it suddenly made all the graphics on the monitor smudge, this happened on DOS also during the startup screen. The operating system was totally wiped out, you couldn't even get to the bios. It destroyed the hardware of his PC.

I've had one which my anti virus promptly got rid of. I know of no others I had that had any visible effect.

I had one that changed my background to porn. Every site that I went to was some random porn site. Later that day the virus crippled my computer so I couldn't even format it. I had to go to a computer programmer to get it fixed. Lesson of this ordeal: don't look at porn.

Some trojan infected exe-s on my PC. Reformat and I was good.

I remember when the CIH virus was the big thing. That erased your entire hard drive.Atheists_Pwn

I don't think I ever had one to my knowledge. I have been using Kaspersky lately as well.

The only one I can think of was one that restricted us from using Google (wth?) way back when. But I wasn't the one who got it; I barely used computers back then.

My worst one(and the only one) was a virus that stole passwords for an online computer game from the 1990's :lol: So it did absolutely nothing.

A few years back I got that one that would automatically shut down your computer when you turned it on, BLASTER worm or something.

a hardcore teen prawn one when i was about 10. too young to appreciate it

The worst one I had was a rootkit. I had Avira AntiVir at the time, and it would detect it, but everytime I would try to delete it, it would say "File Not Found". I tried other antiviruses and they would say the same. So I was like screw it, it's probably not that bad. A week later I scanned my computer with Avira and various Anti-Spyware programs, and found and deleted a good 20 trojans. They were all back by the next day. :cry: Everytime I would delete the trojans, the rootkit would go back and put them on my computer again. After a weeklong, part time battle, I was like **** it, I'm reinstalling windows. Problem solved. :D

IDK, I guess the "antivirus 2009" virus I don't get viruses usually.

The worst one I had was a rootkit. I had Avira AntiVir at the time, and it would detect it, but everytime I would try to delete it, it would say "File Not Found". I tried other antiviruses and they would say the same. So I was like screw it, it's probably not that bad. A week later I scanned my computer with Avira and various Anti-Spyware programs, and found and deleted a good 20 trojans. They were all back by the next day. :cry: Everytime I would delete the trojans, the rootkit would go back and put them on my computer again. After a weeklong, part time battle, I was like **** it, I'm reinstalling windows. Problem solved. :D

dk00111

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The worst one I had was a rootkit. I had Avira AntiVir at the time, and it would detect it, but everytime I would try to delete it, it would say "File Not Found". I tried other antiviruses and they would say the same. So I was like screw it, it's probably not that bad. A week later I scanned my computer with Avira and various Anti-Spyware programs, and found and deleted a good 20 trojans. They were all back by the next day. :cry: Everytime I would delete the trojans, the rootkit would go back and put them on my computer again. After a weeklong, part time battle, I was like **** it, I'm reinstalling windows. Problem solved. :D

Atheists_Pwn

The worst and only one i've ever had was like ten years ago it seems, just remember my pc shutting off every five minutes or something. Wasn't using an ani-virus software then or now lol.

I don't know if this was true, but my friend said he got a virus and a character appeared on his screen.. Can't remember who he said it was now.. But it would drag his files into the bin and stop him from doing things, and the character would react with the actions.Strider_91

I had trojens and spyware, malware, etc.

My computer was super slow and billions of pop ups came up with porno. It had no response.

I don't know if this was true, but my friend said he got a virus and a character appeared on his screen.. Can't remember who he said it was now.. But it would drag his files into the bin and stop him from doing things, and the character would react with the actions.Strider_91