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Did that go away, though? It just got worse, with thousands of bots under every yt vid: "only true ____ fans can like this!", "do not look at my profile pic😔" or the endless strings of nonsense about a cryptoscam from 10 different bots.
It really didn't help that back then the Outlook email client supplied with Windows automatically opened attachments for you, by default. If you did not turn that option off, simply viewing the email was enough for your computer to become infected.
i remember making a private harmless kind of virus, its a batch file that asked if you love it, say yes and you are safe, say no and it will automatically turn the pc off, no harm, no damage, no nothin' just powers off the pc
When I was a kid in the 2000s and 2010s, I was always hearing stuff like “be safe online” or “don’t give out personal information online.” You are the first person in eight years that I’ve heard say that.
My dumb fat fingers mistyped it and I dunno how to edit it on mobile, but it’s at 15:40. Look at the word document’s name near the middle of the screen.
@@yukaiyami Gotcha! You should be able to edit a comment on mobile by clicking on the three dots on the top right side of your comment, which pulls up some options including editing
Google must have gutted the mobile web client, you can't edit comments on the mobile version of the web client now, it has to be their app on mobile or your typos are forever.
@@possiblyazureYeah. The first option I change after installing a new copy of Windows is disabling the file extension hiding. Makes everything so much more secure. They should be shown by default
MyDoom was one of the viruses that infected the XP PC I shared with my siblings back in the day. Not sure where it came from, but it seemed benign. None of our emails were hacked or re-sending this thing to our contacts. But it and other viruses did convince us that switching away from McAfee was a wise decision, lol.
McAfee came pre-installed on my laptop and I uninstalling it improved my laptop's performance by an obviously noticeable amount lol. For as hard as it was to uninstall you'd think it was a virus itself
@@fjordpitsky4486 All our PCs came with McAfee since the Windows 95 days up to XP. As a kid, I didn't question it till the grownups started looking for other solutions. I mean, there must've been a reason for its popularity.
Yeah. It's more like a burglar quietly unlocking a door to the basement that the owners of the house never use, so he and his burglar friends can return whenever they please.
@@SomnusLucisCaelum You willingly joined those social media barns as you call them, child. Hush up and enjoy your datamining overlords and free services that it pays for....
I mean, yes, if you don’t care about details, accuracy, or fact checking. This is the same person that did a documentary of a “virus that spread via sound”. He regularly falls for and does entire videos on nonsense. Even the videos about real things are chock full of wrong dates and other wrong information.
This is a little off-topic, but I think it's interesting. Your description at 7:39, about how those viruses worked by making the victim feel special and privy to something most people aren't? That's also exactly how people get suckered into believing conspiracies theories. It's essentially a low-confidence thing: these folks feel like they suddenly have control over something most don't, because they "know" something the poor misguided masses of the world don't, because they are smarter and more special than them.
@@xanlord2k it is technically possible, but there is nearly no circumstances in which a compiler is configured to keep comments in the binary - especially when you're authoring malware.
I remember the first virus I ever received was called Magistrate and pretty much wiped out my computer. I was 32 years old when I got my first computer in 1997 so I was fairly ignorant about how one worked. My older brother, who was quite savvy with computers bought one for me, but I didn't share his interest so my computer just sat most of the time. I finally started using it more in the early 2000s when I opened an email from someone I didn't know that shared their travel plans with me. That was the beginning of the end of my computer. Not only that, it sent the virus to the few email addresses I had in my address book. The only reason I know that my computer was infected with a virus was that my brother got a copy of the virus that originated from my computer. He was smart enough not to open it like I did. He spent hours salvaging my computer from that nasty virus and I remember him calling it the Magistrate virus. Kind of a catchy name considering the damage it caused.
"Costed" is a Canadian thing. It's considered proper grammar there and in some other English speaking nations. But it does bug the hell out of me every time I hear it.
@@michellelehky2374yeah I'm also Canadian and it's not bullshit, it's just not super common, it really depends on where you are. Plus, costed is indeed in the dictionary
Will never forget it. In 4th grade a friend of mine wanted to give our social study's teacher whom he hated a virus. So he went online and downloaded a folder named virus bomb. Apparently his computer stopped working. Go figure huh : D
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@@Solarsplash64 Literally, this should _not_ be as profitable of an industry as it is
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Has anyone ever told you you look like Paul McCartney
My headcanon is the "it's nothing personal" message is actually a quote. Someone got so mad from being fired that they made a virus about it.
would you blame them in that case?
I may have missed this era, but I didn’t miss the era of “Send this to 10 of your friends or else she will kill you in your sleep!”
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Did that go away, though? It just got worse, with thousands of bots under every yt vid: "only true ____ fans can like this!", "do not look at my profile pic😔" or the endless strings of nonsense about a cryptoscam from 10 different bots.
@@countrygeneral I suppose it’s evolved
And I remember the rest is like "if you do, you will feel a kiss in your sleep. This is real, google it".
@@countrygeneral yeah and it keeps evolving and changing to continue spreading
True question is, can you run Doom inside a computer virus?
Goddamnit you gave me an idea
If crabs can run it than anything can
Lose/lose but doom :D
Yes only as a simulation though
REAL
It really didn't help that back then the Outlook email client supplied with Windows automatically opened attachments for you, by default. If you did not turn that option off, simply viewing the email was enough for your computer to become infected.
Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten about that. What a terrible, terrible idea.
"do not try this at home"
guess i will have to try this at work.
If it was nsfw, where would you go then?
Public Wifi@@L0rdOfThePies
@@L0rdOfThePies To someone elses house, duh
Its not my home and its not work
Maybe a library or a school
@@L0rdOfThePies school
@@WohaoG touchè
i remember making a private harmless kind of virus, its a batch file that asked if you love it, say yes and you are safe, say no and it will automatically turn the pc off, no harm, no damage, no nothin' just powers off the pc
I did something very similar. Average batch file pu together in notepad😂
@@grnetworkmain yeah, that was my first time experementing with software, and now im a decent modder for a sonic 3 fan remake
@@eiadithecoder620 nice
When I was a kid in the 2000s and 2010s, I was always hearing stuff like “be safe online” or “don’t give out personal information online.”
You are the first person in eight years that I’ve heard say that.
11:40 I can’t believe I fell for the “it’s says gullible on the roof” prank in 2024. In video format no less. What the hell.
I might be dumb, but what was the prank?
My dumb fat fingers mistyped it and I dunno how to edit it on mobile, but it’s at 15:40. Look at the word document’s name near the middle of the screen.
@@yukaiyami Gotcha! You should be able to edit a comment on mobile by clicking on the three dots on the top right side of your comment, which pulls up some options including editing
Google must have gutted the mobile web client, you can't edit comments on the mobile version of the web client now, it has to be their app on mobile or your typos are forever.
@@blunderingfool Ah, a classic. This will surely encourage people to get the app and not just piss them off!
Something people should have realised is “document.exe” gives you a clue in the name. You won’t see Notepad saving your documents as a .exe.
Windows even today does not show file extensions by default.
@@possiblyazureThis and most regular people are not informed about file types.
@@possiblyazureYeah. The first option I change after installing a new copy of Windows is disabling the file extension hiding. Makes everything so much more secure. They should be shown by default
Technological literacy on a widespread level is a relatively new thing.
@@RandomGuy37Not even just more secure, but also easier to work with. Far fewer weird issues caused by mismatched formats being hidden from you
I find half the time these days I end up ignoring legit emails because i just figure they are spam/scams unless i was expecting them.
Seriously dude. I’ve probably lost out on some good deals on some websites just cause “eh, might be fake”
MyDoom was one of the viruses that infected the XP PC I shared with my siblings back in the day. Not sure where it came from, but it seemed benign. None of our emails were hacked or re-sending this thing to our contacts. But it and other viruses did convince us that switching away from McAfee was a wise decision, lol.
real
McAfee came pre-installed on my laptop and I uninstalling it improved my laptop's performance by an obviously noticeable amount lol. For as hard as it was to uninstall you'd think it was a virus itself
@@fjordpitsky4486 All our PCs came with McAfee since the Windows 95 days up to XP. As a kid, I didn't question it till the grownups started looking for other solutions. I mean, there must've been a reason for its popularity.
"Andy, I'm just doing my job."
"Alan, please add details."
Comparing a backdoor (A secret way to get access) to a broken window (a direct and loud attack) is a pretty.... interesting choice
Yeah. It's more like a burglar quietly unlocking a door to the basement that the owners of the house never use, so he and his burglar friends can return whenever they please.
@@LilacMonarch Or rigging a lock so it can be easily opened, even when apparently locked.
Yeah, instead of comparing it to... Sneaking in through the back door.
It’s called a backdoor because backdoor attacks is like sneaking in through an unlocked back door lol
.... It's wrong, but I miss this era! Sure, people were naive as all hell (and they still are!), but this era of the internet felt more alive!
This is the time before companies confined us to social media barns and google actually found stuff you wanted/needed 😢😭
Shit even the offline stuff was great. I spent wayyy too much time messing around with fancy screensavers, pinball, snipping tool
@@SomnusLucisCaelum You willingly joined those social media barns as you call them, child. Hush up and enjoy your datamining overlords and free services that it pays for....
And it was before fascists and laypeople infected it.
@@TankRyou’re literally on one of those social medias, and it’s google’s at that. Stfu 😂
Haven’t had one of these videos in my sub box in a while
This is one of the best, most underrated channels on TH-cam!
I mean, yes, if you don’t care about details, accuracy, or fact checking. This is the same person that did a documentary of a “virus that spread via sound”. He regularly falls for and does entire videos on nonsense. Even the videos about real things are chock full of wrong dates and other wrong information.
@@JamesR624Literally every comment you made on his channel is about how wrong he is bruh
@@JamesR624then stop watching and stop commenting
@@JamesR624 Please just leave if you're just going to be mad all the time.
@@thelonleyUchiha1"you're not allowed to criticize something if you don't like it"
This is a little off-topic, but I think it's interesting. Your description at 7:39, about how those viruses worked by making the victim feel special and privy to something most people aren't? That's also exactly how people get suckered into believing conspiracies theories. It's essentially a low-confidence thing: these folks feel like they suddenly have control over something most don't, because they "know" something the poor misguided masses of the world don't, because they are smarter and more special than them.
how did they not catch the suspicious words?
_kindly_ check the attached _LOVELETTER_ coming from me.
@@scmbgoogle7790 It was a different time, I suppose. Back then people also didn't realize that Bonzi Buddy was just spyware, after all.
Ugh, conspiracy theories 🤦♀️
I love how you explained backdoor. It made it actually understandable and less technical. Thanks! ❤
these videos on computer viruses are how I found ur content, and they are really good. plz keep making these
This gives me memories of watching countless danooct1 videos covering on old viruses like these, including one about MyDoom
Mydoom never had an email body that said "I'm just doing my job". That was a comment in the code.
comments aren't compiled.
@@amnoah that very much depends on what the compiler settings are.
@@xanlord2k it is technically possible, but there is nearly no circumstances in which a compiler is configured to keep comments in the binary - especially when you're authoring malware.
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I remember the first virus I ever received was called Magistrate and pretty much wiped out my computer. I was 32 years old when I got my first computer in 1997 so I was fairly ignorant about how one worked. My older brother, who was quite savvy with computers bought one for me, but I didn't share his interest so my computer just sat most of the time.
I finally started using it more in the early 2000s when I opened an email from someone I didn't know that shared their travel plans with me. That was the beginning of the end of my computer. Not only that, it sent the virus to the few email addresses I had in my address book.
The only reason I know that my computer was infected with a virus was that my brother got a copy of the virus that originated from my computer. He was smart enough not to open it like I did. He spent hours salvaging my computer from that nasty virus and I remember him calling it the Magistrate virus. Kind of a catchy name considering the damage it caused.
danooct1 did a demo of it! it’s basically the CIH virus but on steroids
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the email from Mulder should've said SAVE ME SCULLYYYYY
I love the use of Mulder's name lol, I also caught Scully's and a few other notable names 10/10
that matrix spoof was great, i actually watched the sponsor spot
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This it the first time i have been this close to the publishing of a nation squid video
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I swear every time I watch nationsquid a new video comes out after. I should watch it more often.
I’ve been referring to you internally as “Computer Jesus” and this just confirms that
Dude, your sponsorships are unreal. Love it!
This man does such awesome ads for sponsors that I don’t really mind seeing it, i love it!!!
As a 16 year old at the time, i was warned to stay away from emails with um, content of Anna Kournikova 😅
Smashing Pumpkins, X-Files, David Lynch/Mulholland Drive - I think we'd get along pretty well lol great vid dude
Love all of the Beatles references in the emails!! Stuart, Brian, Dhani, etc.
You do such a great job with your all of your videos.
I have to say, I love the ad skits!
Your sponsor breaks are the only ones I don't skip lol
Don't encourage him
Okay the Matrix style ad is perfect 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I burst out laughing when I heard how much it "Costed". Was that intentionally in the script or just a grammar mistake X3.
Also all the subtle references to nostalgic TV shows is awesome! 5 minutes in and we got X-Files & Matrix.
"Costed" is a Canadian thing. It's considered proper grammar there and in some other English speaking nations. But it does bug the hell out of me every time I hear it.
@@rmacsthing8610I'm Canadian, and this is complete bullshit.
@@michellelehky2374yeah I'm also Canadian and it's not bullshit, it's just not super common, it really depends on where you are. Plus, costed is indeed in the dictionary
"costed" is a real word in fairly wide use, but "how much something costed" isn't the proper use of it, at least in Australian English
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"It's not about our money, it's about the message" -The guy who made MyDoom
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8:47 i cant help but always try to spot your beatles easter eggs knowing you're as big a fan as me, its nice to see Stu mentioned ;))
I love the matrix reference on the start!
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All it takes is one bad e-mail
Nice classic nation squid video. Love the new. Love the old. It's all good.
Seeing the Kazaa website was a blast from the past. Simpler times. If I only I could relive those days, it would be brilliant.
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@@NightmareRex6do you really think that your grammar is good by just putting a full stop at the end?
11:24 - AYYY That's exactly a year after I was born :D
gonna need to see that nine inch nails fanart
NationSquid, can you do a vid on the history of YTP?
I love YTPS
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Dude. I'll never skip your ads.
That's okay, I'll always skip them for you :)
Thanks a lot for the DoS, I needed to see why I should choose unix
this video feels so short, anyways I pretty much enjoyed it
Greatly explained, and was very interesting.
0:56 You got an email from Fox Mulder?
*X-files theme starts playing*
Edit: And Dana Scully at 4:54? Maybe she will find a logical explanation
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everytime NationSquid uploads a new video it's always a good day.
Losing my mind over the file joke on the windows desktop screen at the end of the video, thanks
Its a very funny time to put this in my recommendedfeed
Nice -Beatles- Neo costume.
You just made my day by posting :D
that ad sponsor is beautifully made
You're really good! my husband is the same and didn't notice at first. aspirational, cameron
You know its a good day when NationSquid uploads.
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I wonder if Stuart ever got that email…
Will never forget it. In 4th grade a friend of mine wanted to give our social study's teacher whom he hated a virus. So he went online and downloaded a folder named virus bomb. Apparently his computer stopped working. Go figure huh : D
Love the Ringo t-shirt!
Awesome video!
Imagine ddossing a company's website because they wanted you to pay for Linux
Actually that kinda is stupid
based actually
Not just paying for linux, MAKING IT UNFREE. That is scary. (Free as in freedom, ofc)
nah, thats barely anything
@@Linkman8912
freedom as in open source?
Bonus points for SCO getting BTFOd in court
6:40 Don't think I didn't notice "Fox Mulder" and "Dana Scully" on that list
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TIL Costed is used for accounting purposes instead of 'cost'
MyDoom. Wow. I have only the vaguest memories of this name; it's there in my brain, but I don't recall any specifics.
The best part of this video is the fact that he casually has a copy of Cigarettes & Valentines in 2004
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1 out of 100? That blows my mind. I remember MS Word macro viruses well.
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Im not sure what kind of audio suppression you use but it makes your voice sound incredibly "Crispy"
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Aphex Twin has a track named after it. I think it’s on Analord 11
I posted the same thing, but it got deleted lol. I don't think it liked me quoting the full name of the track. (Which is an absolute banger)
That's the first ad I've watched.
Eyyyyy, I knew he’d consider the idea I given out!
I'm shocked it surprassed ILOVEYOU worm.
The "currupted text"'s purpose is not to confuse the user. That's just what an exe looks like when you open it with notepad...