• Estiar@sh.itjust.works
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    Fourty days later, Anon finds that his entire computer file system has been replaced with pics of Morgan Freeman

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      Why aren’t there viruses like this? Everyone wants to hurt your computer. Do something dumb like that.

      Or a screamer virus. That could bring the world to its knees.

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        My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with “I broughted you a pwesent w” energy.

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        I wrote a “virus” in college, which basically:

        1. took a screenshot of the entire desktop
        2. displayed screenshot full-screen on top of other windows
        3. would only go away if you typed “@sugar_in_your_tea pwned me” or something

        Oh, and it started on startup, so rebooting wouldn’t fix it. :)

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          bro I was thinking of this EXACT idea around the time you sent this message, how many more evidence do I need to conclude that this world is a simulation 💀💀

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          I did one similar! Used autohotkey to hide the task bar at random intervals and pop up a warning that said “system out of memory”. Only way to get it back was autohotkey or a reboot. It would restart daily and on login so it would keep happening. And I hid it as “Nvidia game scanner service.exe” in the Nvidia bloatware folder so it looked innocent. Had a good laugh about that one

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        I think that’s because most viruses aren’t made for fun but for a specific reason (i.e to steal money from someone’s computer).