2:30 The semicolon in the last modification date is a Y2K bug. All dates past the year 2000 show a symbol in the year :) It was patched as Q85557 ("File Manager Shows Garbled Date for Year 2000 or Later")
Favorite quote from this video: "It shouldn't even run this poorly, it's a 386." On a side note, I wish I kept at least one of my 486 computers. I got rid of all of them about 10 years ago.
Of all the other viruses in your channel, this one is clearly one of the most scary viruses. You have absolutely no idea about what's going on, and the hard disk is going crazy, and you fear that you'll lose your data thru a hard drive fail. Clearly makes people shake in their boots.
Did viruses back then even damaged the machine physically? I know I’m talking like noob but i really don’t know because I haven’t used these old machine before. But i think viruses were able to damage machine physically due to intense pressure of the machine, also we have to be conscious about that memory management wasn’t that great before. What do you think Dan?
there really wouldn't be any physical damage, outside of something like opening and closing the CD-ROM drive infinitely being left to run for days on end. more hard drive access reduces its lifespan, but it wouldn't be a significant amount.
There's CIH, which will wipe your BIOS chip if it can get away with it, which is technically physical damage. The motherboard won't work anymore, but none of the motherboard hardware is actually damaged - it's just a total pain and a half to try and reflash the BIOS externally. (e.g. "desolder this chip and use an EEPROM programmer" levels of total pain and a half)
danooct1 i wonder if a virus could be so physically destructive that it overwrites the motherboard BIOS so that it over-volts the entire system. Also, can you do an episode on the virus bonzify? also, great pun in the beginning of this episode.
Fun fact - the date in Windows 3.1 is affected by the Y2K bug . The decade place is encoded in ASCII without range checking - so it goes '1' (ASCII 0x31), '2' (0x32), .., 8 (0x38), '9' (0x39) and then ':' (0x3A) for 2000, ';' (0x3B) for 2010, etc. This is why you see the date as xx/xx/;7 There is a patch you can apply to fix this.
Unfortunately the patch is no longer available on Microsoft's site, but it was previously published as Q85557 ("File Manager Shows Garbled Date for Year 2000 or Later")
The thing you did near 0:18 is a great marketing strategy, it takes people's attention and it makes them curious, so they want to pause and read it. Great job lol
I knew the Twitch joke was coming, but I laughed anyway. Thanks as always for making these videos, Dan! I wish I could support you more but the recent Patreon fiasco has me concerned. Have a Merry Christmas!
The weird error message at 5:46 occurs when the system is out of memory. Try opening notepad 100's of times on a win95 machine for example and you'll see a similiar messagebox.
I checked his channel today and thought of why dan didn't have new content with a friend of mine. Then he uploads a video the very same day. What a day to be alive.
IIRC, Win 3.1 had a Y2K bug which caused the date to display as, for example, ":7" for 2017. I remember this being the case with my installation of Win 3.1 back in the day on a computer that was no infected. Honestly all these years later I don't remember what I did but as of today, it displays the date correctly. (maybe installing the win32 update?)
Yup... there was an updated winfile.exe for both 3.1 and 95 that would display 00 and onward properly. Otherwise, unpatched on both systems it would always do ;0, ;1, ;2 etc....
Ok, so I've done a seperate analysis of this virus on my own virtual machine and here's what I've found: 1. This virus is a companion virus, where it overwrites the original .exe every few seconds (and usually whenever you're doing things) with the virus, and puts the original program into a seperate .ovl file. So you'll have calc.exe and calc.ovl. 2. The first time you run an infected file on a reboot, it will simply run the virus, and refuse to run the original program. Running the same file again will... well... run the file. 3. Turns out there may be a memory leak? During my tests the memory avaliable was slowly decreasing the longer the OS was running, and I guess that explains some of the memory issues you were running into later into the video. 4. Trying to directly open any non-executable file from file manager (like .wav .txt .hlp etc) will run the program assosiated with it, but not actually open the file you were trying to open. If you guys want I can make a video with an in-depth analysis on this virus, as its kind of hard to explain everything through text, but you get the main idea. And incase you're wondering, I was using PCem as my emulator, which does a very good job of emulating old hardware (like 386, 486, hell even 8086 if you want to)
Oh by the way Daniel, you didn’t notice that twitch creates additional files following infection. That would explain the file amount increase. Just to point that out.
I love these videos of yours but being a computer science student I would like to know how do you obtain these viruses ... I would also like to study them
Hey dan, i wanna know, where are you getting these relatively recent malware samples? Ive been searching for sites hosting recent samples but i cannot find any that are hosting recent samples
I would love to see a virus that changes all of your icons, your background, and your error icon logo to the Thomas the Train engine face (you know which one I'm talking about) and when you try to remove it, it could either fuck your files and executables or it renders your computer useless. Yeah I have a weird imagination.
Infecting other files=Sounds like Win32.Pinfi. A sign of that virus, is often getting an error message from any installer you downloaded or clicked on, that the file is corrupted, because that memory-resident virus appends junk to the end of any file you access, pretty much... I got that one in 2003... So the SoundBlaster driver installer failed, lol.
I can translate that weird error for you: "Windows is out of memory. Please close out any running programs to free up memory." I am an expert in gibberish.
My old windows xp computer hard-drive made those clicking sounds a-lot. Windows would just stop responding too. Now 4 years later it won't even boot. Could have been twitch.
_Mootin a dead hard drive does that, not the virus, it can't even infect it because win Xp has an entirely different file system and kernel compared to 3.1.
Yea, ok dead hard drive, that's what I thought while it was happening. The computer was pretty old so it would make sense. Twitch did replicate it quite well though.
Automatically livestreaming a random computer getting destroyed by a virus where viewers control it... Sounds cool, but, to be honest, there are many problems with that. 1. Twitch would be quick to ban such a livestream, or any other streaming platform 2. What if the victim PC has potato internet and you can't really stream off it very well? 3. What if there are multiple PC's infected? 4. What if Twitch, while banning that livestream, gets your IP address and stuff and hands that to police or FBI or whatever? 5. Wouldn't that leak important personal data in these livestreams? _(I guess this one can be ignored since viruses are somewhat meant to do this but still)_ 6. And even if we were to ignore all of this, and Twitch would allow it, what if the virus suddenly infects a PC of someone who is watching some horrid child porn or whatever, and that person would just not notice/not care? No way Twitch would allow _that!_ .....However, if someone makes it and it turns out great, I'd love to see that.
The most similar thing is SmileLocker by Leurak, used on Vargskelethor's Longhorn destruction. The chat needs to put smiles to stop the virus from encrypting everything and killing the whole computer.
strange question, but any chance we could get isolated audio of the hard drive clicking? like how a few years ago, you did that 10 minutes "Netsky.D beeps" video?
I don't know. Everytime watching on mobile, video halts for like 30 secs while audio keeps playing. And then video and audio are out of sync :( Not only with TH-cam, it happens with pretty much every video stream. Playing video on Facebook, Twitch or Twitter, no matter where, it splits audio and video out of sync :( Strange, it doesn't happen while playing offline videos (saved in my phone). Anyone to explain?
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After the virus finishes infecting your files, your computer becomes only slightly less functional than Twitch.
Haaay. Twitch is a pretty good character, and...yeah the streaming service is ass.
@@MinecraftMarioFantheAnimator quite literally 100% ass
Still better than all those services that ripped it off
Imaging
2:30 The semicolon in the last modification date is a Y2K bug. All dates past the year 2000 show a symbol in the year :)
It was patched as Q85557 ("File Manager Shows Garbled Date for Year 2000 or Later")
Yes, and now in 2020-2029, it will show a < sign.
who the hell uses real-mode windows 3 in 2000s
@collabvm ytpmv oof
Lol, imagine making an OS in the 1990s only to not even be Y2K compliant.
Were you making popcorn in that hard drive?
That computer's hdd was cookin' up a storm...
@@themole4534 think it got hot enough to sear a steak?
@@themole4534 like tsunami not a storm
Xd
Nah that ain’t a hard drive anymore, that’s a Geiger counter in Chernobyl!
Favorite quote from this video: "It shouldn't even run this poorly, it's a 386."
On a side note, I wish I kept at least one of my 486 computers. I got rid of all of them about 10 years ago.
Lol yeah, when i heard him say that i thought " ... Said nobody for the last 30 years "
Same here. I had an amazing 486 pc that ran all the games from the era. I got rid of it 20+ years ago. I wish I didn't.
Of all the other viruses in your channel, this one is clearly one of the most scary viruses. You have absolutely no idea about what's going on, and the hard disk is going crazy, and you fear that you'll lose your data thru a hard drive fail.
Clearly makes people shake in their boots.
Twitch Plays Windows 3.1
Lmao
Did viruses back then even damaged the machine physically? I know I’m talking like noob but i really don’t know because I haven’t used these old machine before. But i think viruses were able to damage machine physically due to intense pressure of the machine, also we have to be conscious about that memory management wasn’t that great before. What do you think Dan?
Siam Alam yes
there really wouldn't be any physical damage, outside of something like opening and closing the CD-ROM drive infinitely being left to run for days on end. more hard drive access reduces its lifespan, but it wouldn't be a significant amount.
There's CIH, which will wipe your BIOS chip if it can get away with it, which is technically physical damage. The motherboard won't work anymore, but none of the motherboard hardware is actually damaged - it's just a total pain and a half to try and reflash the BIOS externally. (e.g. "desolder this chip and use an EEPROM programmer" levels of total pain and a half)
These are not steam powered computers...
danooct1 i wonder if a virus could be so physically destructive that it overwrites the motherboard BIOS so that it over-volts the entire system.
Also, can you do an episode on the virus bonzify?
also, great pun in the beginning of this episode.
What this virus is actually doing is mimicking the time that it takes for danooct1 to make a new video.
Ohhh shit
brutal
Apply water to burned area....
@@henrikhyrup3995
*to make it burn more*
Fun fact - the date in Windows 3.1 is affected by the Y2K bug . The decade place is encoded in ASCII without range checking - so it goes '1' (ASCII 0x31), '2' (0x32), .., 8 (0x38), '9' (0x39) and then ':' (0x3A) for 2000, ';' (0x3B) for 2010, etc. This is why you see the date as xx/xx/;7 There is a patch you can apply to fix this.
Semicolon in date is a winfile 2k-bug, patched version exists.
I figured as much, I'd forgotten I'd set it to 2017 a while back.
Unfortunately the patch is no longer available on Microsoft's site, but it was previously published as Q85557 ("File Manager Shows Garbled Date for Year 2000 or Later")
But it's available on MDGx
I never trusted online streaming services.
nikitpad You were right
Says the windows logo
The thing you did near 0:18 is a great marketing strategy, it takes people's attention and it makes them curious, so they want to pause and read it. Great job lol
It says this
twitch.tv/psychofizz
come watch my gf get mad at mega man
There now you know
Mr Diamond I know, I paused to read it because I was curious to see what it was
i think i read it somewhere, but coke had made adverts like that.
some show is airing and bam, coke advert for 1 frame
**Sees a Windows 3.1 virus video** ...Yes
I knew the Twitch joke was coming, but I laughed anyway. Thanks as always for making these videos, Dan! I wish I could support you more but the recent Patreon fiasco has me concerned. Have a Merry Christmas!
The virus turns your hard drive into a Geiger Counter
The weird error message at 5:46 occurs when the system is out of memory. Try opening notepad 100's of times on a win95 machine for example and you'll see a similiar messagebox.
Does it translate to anything specific or could it be just a dump of code or something the computer doesn’t have the right font to show?
Oh holy hell! You're back!
happywin98 how very festive of you =P
whos holly
You can’t edit this I already saw it XD
PsychoFizz lol xD
Happywin98,do you want some more spaghetti?
H E I S A L I V E
I checked his channel today and thought of why dan didn't have new content with a friend of mine.
Then he uploads a video the very same day. What a day to be alive.
Can we come back to those days? The current time sucks lol
You can stream to Twitch on Win16 now? PogChamp
Top 10 twitch fails danooct1
IIRC, Win 3.1 had a Y2K bug which caused the date to display as, for example, ":7" for 2017. I remember this being the case with my installation of Win 3.1 back in the day on a computer that was no infected. Honestly all these years later I don't remember what I did but as of today, it displays the date correctly. (maybe installing the win32 update?)
I don't know if you are aware of this, but Twitch creates additional files following infection.
the total files goes up because it probably backs up the original exes as a hidden file
Pre-installed with Windows 10, I take it?
it is windows 10
semi-colon on the year actually wasn't the virus.... that was Windows 3.1. (It wasn't y2k compliant :) ).
There was a patch for it though, iirc.
Yup... there was an updated winfile.exe for both 3.1 and 95 that would display 00 and onward properly. Otherwise, unpatched on both systems it would always do ;0, ;1, ;2 etc....
At 4:21 the statement, "It shouldn't even run this poorly it's a 386!", I like...
How horrid would it be
A virus in win 98 that is twitch integrated
Destroying files as people type what to do
You’re my favorite twitch streamer dannyboi
Ok, so I've done a seperate analysis of this virus on my own virtual machine and here's what I've found:
1. This virus is a companion virus, where it overwrites the original .exe every few seconds (and usually whenever you're doing things) with the virus, and puts the original program into a seperate .ovl file. So you'll have calc.exe and calc.ovl.
2. The first time you run an infected file on a reboot, it will simply run the virus, and refuse to run the original program. Running the same file again will... well... run the file.
3. Turns out there may be a memory leak? During my tests the memory avaliable was slowly decreasing the longer the OS was running, and I guess that explains some of the memory issues you were running into later into the video.
4. Trying to directly open any non-executable file from file manager (like .wav .txt .hlp etc) will run the program assosiated with it, but not actually open the file you were trying to open.
If you guys want I can make a video with an in-depth analysis on this virus, as its kind of hard to explain everything through text, but you get the main idea.
And incase you're wondering, I was using PCem as my emulator, which does a very good job of emulating old hardware (like 386, 486, hell even 8086 if you want to)
that’s cool to know, i’m confused about why the files shrink in size though, i don’t know anything about viruses really.
Dannnn Twitch creates additional files following infection!! Did you notice?
I've waited for a couple of months. Now, you're finally back! Thanks so much for the new video, DanoOct1!
I love your videos man. Really starting to love viruses more than hating them.
But for real, People would love to see you on twitch.
Your hard drive didn’t think that file was very poggers
You should had pressed the TURBO button on your pc to speed it up again.
Eduardo W. Oh cool! Let me just pppprrrreeeessssssss iiiitttt....
RedShirtCult r/woooosh
Whoops I downloaded the wrong twitch...
My hard drive does the same thing but that is because my hard drive is complete trash, but it sounds just like that. But less louder of course.
For a few weeks there I thought that Dan was dead already...
Left a like! I don't mind the long wait at all Danooct1 :) Just upload videos whenever you can! I'll stay subbed
4:40 my laptop in a nutshell
[HARD DRIVE CLICKING NOISE]
*[HARD DRIVE CLICKING NOISE!]*
The Harddrive sounds like a Popcorn Machine.
Hey i have an mtc Corporation 7521plus notebook with win me. Can anyone tell me which graphics driver is correct? Sis 300 or sis 605 wont work...
This is the common windows performance I remember from my childhood
the twitch stacks on top of each other everytime it refreshes and eventually allocate all of the RAM that dis machine has RIP
I thought you were gonna become RougeAmp 2.0 for a second there
Oh by the way Daniel, you didn’t notice that twitch creates additional files following infection. That would explain the file amount increase. Just to point that out.
Yur Boi he noticed it after recording lol
PsychoFizz I know, I was just joking around based on what he wrote at 2:18 lol😜
wanna know whats funny? I watched this video as dan was recording it... and i just now noticed that text....
does anyone see purple lines in the background or is it just me
I'm not sure if you're aware but Twitch creates additional files following infection
Just thought I'd point it out 😉
Ever heard of Sonic Gather Battle? It's a fan game disguised as a trojan because the creator of the game was overly NRS-levels of paranoid
SparktheDog I would've said that's more of a RogueAmp thing, buuuuuut...
I love these videos of yours but being a computer science student I would like to know how do you obtain these viruses ... I would also like to study them
There is a 2018 version, preinstalled on every computer and called Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry xDD
After it finishes it turns your computer into a live streaming device and it gives you 10,000 automatic followers on Twitch
is WINMINE.EXE, GRAPHICS.COM win16 edition
Well you guys have some DDR skills!
Rikketik lol thank you dan is WAY better though
Still works faster than my laptop
Still Works
@Redisity I guess my $300 laptop is faster than yours
Hey dan, i wanna know, where are you getting these relatively recent malware samples? Ive been searching for sites hosting recent samples but i cannot find any that are hosting recent samples
Well, about time! I've been waiting for a video for months!
Yo , it cant even run minesweeper ! How the hell am I supposed to play crysis on it ?
sinta dorti forget that, how can it run doom!?!
Doom ??? You are not serious !
sinta dorti actually I kind of am, the 1993 doom is a million times lighter than crysis at least
It was a joke ! I know about doom !
Another one who did not get the joke !
I would love to see a virus that changes all of your icons, your background, and your error icon logo to the Thomas the Train engine face (you know which one I'm talking about) and when you try to remove it, it could either fuck your files and executables or it renders your computer useless. Yeah I have a weird imagination.
3:16
Psst...
Hey!
You hear that?
*its the sound of the hard disk becoming popcorn all the way through the video*
*for you*
*-to eat-*
This is my favourite channel on TH-cam. Please never stop making videos.
I now know why people hate on Windows 10.
Infecting other files=Sounds like Win32.Pinfi. A sign of that virus, is often getting an error message from any installer you downloaded or clicked on, that the file is corrupted, because that memory-resident virus appends junk to the end of any file you access, pretty much... I got that one in 2003... So the SoundBlaster driver installer failed, lol.
Like a phoenix rising from the ash, another virus for our entertainment.
will you show like malware that ignores virtual machines?
Virus need to recall, "deer virus"
I can translate that weird error for you: "Windows is out of memory. Please close out any running programs to free up memory."
I am an expert in gibberish.
watching a computer click away and run this slowly actually pains me
I'm fine, I'm fine...
...
...
...
*TWITCH CREATES ADDITION FILES* just thought it was *REQUIRED* information...
When I saw this notification I thought you were livestreaming on twitch and this was an announcement lol, anyways keep making videos we missed you!
Virus.win64.Twitch will actually live broadcast everything you do on your desktop to Twitch
My old windows xp computer hard-drive made those clicking sounds a-lot. Windows would just stop responding too. Now 4 years later it won't even boot. Could have been twitch.
_Mootin a dead hard drive does that, not the virus, it can't even infect it because win Xp has an entirely different file system and kernel compared to 3.1.
Yea, ok dead hard drive, that's what I thought while it was happening. The computer was pretty old so it would make sense. Twitch did replicate it quite well though.
A virus crashes Paper Mario
Someone with more talent than me should make a virus that has twitch integration to decide which payload is deployed
Oh man, and the destruction is automatically livestreamed as well every time it infects a computer
Automatically livestreaming a random computer getting destroyed by a virus where viewers control it... Sounds cool, but, to be honest, there are many problems with that.
1. Twitch would be quick to ban such a livestream, or any other streaming platform
2. What if the victim PC has potato internet and you can't really stream off it very well?
3. What if there are multiple PC's infected?
4. What if Twitch, while banning that livestream, gets your IP address and stuff and hands that to police or FBI or whatever?
5. Wouldn't that leak important personal data in these livestreams? _(I guess this one can be ignored since viruses are somewhat meant to do this but still)_
6. And even if we were to ignore all of this, and Twitch would allow it, what if the virus suddenly infects a PC of someone who is watching some horrid child porn or whatever, and that person would just not notice/not care? No way Twitch would allow _that!_
.....However, if someone makes it and it turns out great, I'd love to see that.
The most similar thing is SmileLocker by Leurak, used on Vargskelethor's Longhorn destruction. The chat needs to put smiles to stop the virus from encrypting everything and killing the whole computer.
Hi, do you make Mebromi BIOS kit video please?
Thanks
Daniel i have a andriod virus do you want it?
HE RETURNS! :D
itsFODDER ...
strange question, but any chance we could get isolated audio of the hard drive clicking? like how a few years ago, you did that 10 minutes "Netsky.D beeps" video?
Does this work as intended on NTVDM?
Twitch Disabled = Using a High End PC on Windows 10/11
Twitch Enabled = Using a Low End PC on Windows 10/11
Birds are evil
Danooct1 whats happend to your forum. How to I submit malware to you?
forum became shit and he ended it, cant really blame the man.
*Squees of joy* You aren't dead :D
Do you have a telegram group chat ?
that hard drive is absolutely fried
*_Twitch in the 90s_*
Kreygasm
PogChamp
Kappa
Did any 32bit win 3x virus ever get made?
The pauses are about the same time as the stream delay on twitch.
yay, another win16 virus! what is this, the second one?
have you ever did malware that isn't Virus, Trojans and worms?
like adwares, ransomwares, spywares etc...
What's with the video delay?
I don't know. Everytime watching on mobile, video halts for like 30 secs while audio keeps playing. And then video and audio are out of sync :( Not only with TH-cam, it happens with pretty much every video stream. Playing video on Facebook, Twitch or Twitter, no matter where, it splits audio and video out of sync :( Strange, it doesn't happen while playing offline videos (saved in my phone). Anyone to explain?
I couldn't see the Windows twitching, is it just the window moving left and right or something?
Ah, sorry - I thought it moved the window around. Thanks for confirming. :)
Spooky
What twitch? The stream website (BA DUM TSS)
Ok, i'll leave now
You Mean The Twitch Livestream?
You need to go after the malat trojan. It’s a severe one and I want to know what it does
I love harddrive-brand popcorn
Can you do the niceme.me virus please?
Twitch existed in 1993??