I did a similar thing once on my virtual machine, and I ended up getting some really nasty malware on there. It pretended to be csrss and it somehow *disabled windows defender* and added a bunch of crap exes to autorun. I couldn't even get rid of it with task manager, because it kept coming back. So yeah, never click those ads unless you want some really bad malware on the system. Anyways, good video!
this actually isnt as bad as some other stuff because running malwarebytes or kaspersky would fix it cause they cant be disabled without user permission from the desktop
speaking of malware, i had a kindle fire a few years ago (tablet with android based OS) and multiple times i got viruses, which would either randomly show pop-ups saying something like "this girl is 10 miles away and wants to date" or the virus would randomly open random websites
Sounds like you downloaded some shady APKs. I wouldn't blame you for sideloading on a fire tablet tho cause the official app store on them is far worse than google play.
@@Xtemessit actually means it's good but not really valued, like you'd expect for this guy to have at least 100k subs because of the content he puts out but he actually has 37k
I remeber downloading a shady program that claimed to allow you to access free movies. It didn't actually let me watch anything, but instead installed other bad programs and browser extensions. I think at some point even had a ransomware show up.
The only thing i have to say is that for the majority of users, winzip or its adjacent programs like WinRAR aren't being used for zip files since, as mentioned, zip files have been natively supported by windows for a good while. What hasnt, are files like 7zip, or rar, or the plethora of other compression types that windows still doesn't fully support natively in their operating system to this day. Why the programs include those features probably has something to do with optimization, since many of them give you options for how your file(s) are compressed, what level of compression relative to data loss is acceptable, etc, whereas windows natively just has their baseline algorithm which does fine in most contexts, but can be lethal to someone like a dev or producer or artist where all the data is relevant and cant be left out/corrupted for the sake of compression.
Nice video. Btw what VM are u using VMware I think? I never use VM I wanted to ask if it's paid and hard to use. (i expect it will be paid just asking)
VMWare workstation is proprietary and paid, you can use virtualbox which is free. If you are running untrusted code in a VM, you should make sure you have disabled any guest sharing features to ensure the malware doesn't escape.
@@EricParker there are 2 versions of vmware the first one is vmware workstation player which is free and the second one is vmware workstation pro which is paid but has a 30 day free trial
you were just an idiot. ive always been aware that the website thinks im an idiot. i actually dont press any download button because i am also an idiot and i am terrified of pressing the wrong one
I was really dumb when I was 9. I would fall for a bunch of minecraft "shaders" "mods" stuff like that. It never worked out and it always went to very sketchy places. And I learned my lesson from that, and I stopped downloading that stuff from 10 years old onward. And started to grow more Common sense the older I got afterwards...
I also fell for shady "jailbreak" and "tweakbox" stuff during that time. It was on my iPad, I don't know what it did but it was probably Malicious in some way. And when tried to get a lot of a specific item in a videogame, I fell for the stupid human verification stuff and it didn't do anything.
Eric I have a question. What do you do with your internet when downloading these "fake" download button's because some malware can spread through internet. and I don't want to take a chance of it spreading to my gaming pc (that is pretty expensive and it would suck to have to replace my computer) so what do i do?
Nothing. Rarely I use a VPN, usually I'm not too concerned, IP address is not a useful attack vector. The VM is NAT'ed so it can't reach the hosts network directly.
have in mind that some software has a detection script to detect if you are running in a vm and can make so the software wont run or run in a different way
@@Lucas-ym6fn Im in 6th and actually fell for some of those while trying to dowload mc mods but I got it all fixed(and yes i knew about those things in the first place)
I did the same thing and am now playing Minecraft and Roblox on the same monitor while talking to my lustful hot milf girlfriend who was conveniently waiting only a 10 minute drive from my house
Oh ad fly..the bane of my minecraft map downloading experience
Real
seeing adfly and mediafire brings up some "teenager first time on internet" memories
This video alone is one of the strongest arguments in favor of using adblock I've seen in a while.
And yet, TH-cam still hates Adblockers.
@@PineconiumOfficial sadly yes... The war will never end but I just hope that adblockers will continue to stay ahead as they've been already.
commie
I did a similar thing once on my virtual machine, and I ended up getting some really nasty malware on there. It pretended to be csrss and it somehow *disabled windows defender* and added a bunch of crap exes to autorun. I couldn't even get rid of it with task manager, because it kept coming back. So yeah, never click those ads unless you want some really bad malware on the system. Anyways, good video!
Remember this comment 😊
Got adware?
this actually isnt as bad as some other stuff because running malwarebytes or kaspersky would fix it cause they cant be disabled without user permission from the desktop
speaking of malware, i had a kindle fire a few years ago (tablet with android based OS) and multiple times i got viruses, which would either randomly show pop-ups saying something like "this girl is 10 miles away and wants to date" or the virus would randomly open random websites
this❗️girl👧is🙏10🔟miles🚙away🏃and💬wants🤲to🫵date❤️
Bro what did you download
@@skyshunts one of them was a "Super Mario Maker android port"
Sounds like you downloaded some shady APKs. I wouldn't blame you for sideloading on a fire tablet tho cause the official app store on them is far worse than google play.
Omg I remember having one, and then one day it just shut off and never turned on again… I probably got a virus on it lol
your channel is super underrated
@Reece Maharg Yeah underrated means good if you didn't know
So true
@@Xtemessit actually means it's good but not really valued, like you'd expect for this guy to have at least 100k subs because of the content he puts out but he actually has 37k
You’re underrated mate. You’re like Enderman, but British and speaking.
Or Jim Browning
ay! three cheers pfp! love that album
Eric's Canadian lol
Enderman could be british as they dont speak
@@UDGythe's Russian, he said that in his Windows XP 20th anniversary vid i think
I remeber downloading a shady program that claimed to allow you to access free movies. It didn't actually let me watch anything, but instead installed other bad programs and browser extensions. I think at some point even had a ransomware show up.
123movies?
Man the SDF wikipedia page out of the blue is what makes me laugh the most-
damn TH-cam is unfair you deserve at least 100k subscribers.
Wish granted! Hopefully 200k comes soon
@@MapStarer very cool this guy grew a lot
I mean the download buttons aren’t wrong your downloading something
How the hell do you only have 253 subscribers? This content is literal gold, you deserve way more subscribers than 250; you should have atleast 100k.
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Umm he got a bit more subs but still he needs even more subs.
@@KittyCatYT that was 4 months ago or 3 months ago for you
@@AceWeh 1.7k
@@EnderMC 21.6k
The only thing i have to say is that for the majority of users, winzip or its adjacent programs like WinRAR aren't being used for zip files since, as mentioned, zip files have been natively supported by windows for a good while. What hasnt, are files like 7zip, or rar, or the plethora of other compression types that windows still doesn't fully support natively in their operating system to this day. Why the programs include those features probably has something to do with optimization, since many of them give you options for how your file(s) are compressed, what level of compression relative to data loss is acceptable, etc, whereas windows natively just has their baseline algorithm which does fine in most contexts, but can be lethal to someone like a dev or producer or artist where all the data is relevant and cant be left out/corrupted for the sake of compression.
amazing video very informative. always wondered what happens when you click those big green button ads
really really underrated
I use VMWare Workstation Pro 17 and would 100% recommend it to all people who use VMs for Scam Baiting or even just testing viruses like Eric here.
VMWare is good, Windows Sandbox mode is also ok.
this must be what my teacher goes through every day
pov your grandma
POV a random little kid downloading everything they see on random websites
@@skyshunts me first getting a laptop belike:
really underrated
Nice video.
Btw what VM are u using VMware I think?
I never use VM I wanted to ask if it's paid and hard to use. (i expect it will be paid just asking)
VMWare workstation is proprietary and paid, you can use virtualbox which is free. If you are running untrusted code in a VM, you should make sure you have disabled any guest sharing features to ensure the malware doesn't escape.
@@EricParker there are 2 versions of vmware the first one is vmware workstation player which is free and the second one is vmware workstation pro which is paid but has a 30 day free trial
This right here is why we have ad blockers
Most underrated tech channel ever! Almost addicted to your content lol (not actually)
When i was young i was unaware of these viruses and i stupidly clicked on them many times. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything
you were just an idiot. ive always been aware that the website thinks im an idiot. i actually dont press any download button because i am also an idiot and i am terrified of pressing the wrong one
I was really dumb when I was 9. I would fall for a bunch of minecraft "shaders" "mods" stuff like that. It never worked out and it always went to very sketchy places. And I learned my lesson from that, and I stopped downloading that stuff from 10 years old onward. And started to grow more Common sense the older I got afterwards...
I also fell for shady "jailbreak" and "tweakbox" stuff during that time. It was on my iPad, I don't know what it did but it was probably Malicious in some way. And when tried to get a lot of a specific item in a videogame, I fell for the stupid human verification stuff and it didn't do anything.
There are so many things I fell for, including stupid ads and many more. Now I don't do that anymore.
I got duped by one of these fake download buttons once because the buttons coincidentally had the same color scheme as the site I was visiting
9:46 British Ableist slur jumpscare.
Glad to see someone is brave in doing this
Norton is so shady, it force back-up my files one time on my old pc
5:36 HEYYY
your channel is so underrated, you deserve more!! Good job
Omg my school pc looks like the end result XD…
Eric I have a question. What do you do with your internet when downloading these "fake" download button's because some malware can spread through internet. and I don't want to take a chance of it spreading to my gaming pc (that is pretty expensive and it would suck to have to replace my computer) so what do i do?
Nothing. Rarely I use a VPN, usually I'm not too concerned, IP address is not a useful attack vector.
The VM is NAT'ed so it can't reach the hosts network directly.
@@EricParker Thx!
@@EricParker also do you have a discord server? I would like to have a chat with you about computers.
have in mind that some software has a detection script to detect if you are running in a vm and can make so the software wont run or run in a different way
im in 4th grade and one of my friends in 2nd grade fell for one of those extention ads for a roblox website, xD
Oof. I am 14 and I have a younger brother in year 4. He knows a kid in 3rd grade who fell for that while looking for “Minecraft hacks”
@@Lucas-ym6fn Im in 6th and actually fell for some of those while trying to dowload mc mods but I got it all fixed(and yes i knew about those things in the first place)
Ur in 7th grade now xd
Hey, i really love these videos pls do more! :)
great vid :)
"weeding out"
I did the same thing and am now playing Minecraft and Roblox on the same monitor while talking to my lustful hot milf girlfriend who was conveniently waiting only a 10 minute drive from my house
And yes I lasted 31 seconds
bro what's the song at 7:00 it slaps so hard af:)
need to know this too
Man Wtf you Deserved More Subscriber
hey its slimware again
Try to get ransomware from ads
underrated
you need more subs this is so cool!!!!!
What do you think of WinRar?
14:02 at this point i don't know if the fake antivirus is lying or not
What were the top 6 minecraft mods?
Interesting channel indeed
Mcdpl is a real m Minecraft mods
I clicked on one of those ads once, now my Google chrome only uses bing and yahoo, I just use opera gx now
you can always reinstall chrome
Damn love those vids
winzip just encrypts ur zips and makes u pay i had it for some reason
no it doesnt get the real version
Youre a genius
Underrated
u deserve alot more subs
Ik im only 1 moe but
11:02 Read your browsing history XD what a scam
i used winzip one time three years ago and every single week it asks me to give it money like,,,, bro i got another unzipping program shut up
On my mobile devices I use a private dns, so I can't access malicious websites
How to get a encrypted key when in a ransomware
Identify the ransomware and search for a decryptor online
zip support was win 7 or8
I felt very uncomfortable watching this, never liked seeing those download buttons
it feels the same as seeing bugs near food
Is Webroot a good antivurs?
everybody knows the best antivirus is your knowledge on how to avoid malware and viruses
How manny virus did you get?
Windows sandbox
I’m gonna like because your goated
can a driver hack a pc
click *here* jk
tron script is alot easier to use than maleware bytes, try use in next video