modern culture incentives killing off your individual psyche and soul. but that isnt inherently corporate blame but they do piggyback off the problem. its easy to sell to consumists
I remember a friend of mine got a pretty shitty virus back in the day. As far as I know, it didn't do anything really malicious besides being annoying. But basically every 30 minutes or so, a picture of a pig would show up on screen along with really loud pig noises.
daisy, daisy, give me your answer do, im half crazy, just for the love of you! it wont be a stylish marriage, i cant afford a carriage. but you'll look sweet, upon a seat, of a bicycle built for 2.
I’ve always wanted to make a worm that is literally a worm, and I want to name it Wormagotchi. It would just place an executable file on your desktop that would be a tamagotchi but a worm. And have a button with on it that uninstalls the worm, places the Wormagotchi data in a zip in an app data file, then leaves a folder on the desktop with a .txt with the worm saying goodbye to the user in it, and a .png that’s a screenshot of your desktop but with the worm sleeping in the foreground. If you got reinfected, the data would be retrieved, and a pop up saying something along the lines of “worm has returned from its trip!” would appear when launching the file explorer.
Honestly such a cute idea but that's the kind of thing I was wondering about it would be cool if instead of the usual stuff malware does you get a game that also sends itself to your friends to play once you've beaten it I feel like thar could be a very cool concept, like how some games change your desktop background and such as part of the experience
cool idea, if I(or someone else) learn how to program malware that interacts with the system AND other apps, then I might make something like it, but I'm not a good game Dev to make the tomagotchi
I've had a rat once (Remote Access Trojan) one day I came back to my computer to see my cursor moving towards my steam wallet, I moved my mouse and that probably scared them because they stopped. needless to say I had to deep clean my pc. one of the scariest moments I've ever experienced though.
That's fucking hilarious. That's like waking up in the middle of the night to someone reaching through your window trying to grab your wallet and you smacking their wrist and them running off. Scary for sure, but goofy as hell.
When I figured out I got infected with a troyan (keylogger & console access) I opened a random login page (think it was youtube) and, in the password, field i just cussed out the guy that hijacked my pc in the hopes they'd read it before unplugged the internet cable after pressing log in. Formatted my computer afterwards
That's like a primal fear a have. Having my computer do shit on it's own out of my control scares me, but if I had a RAT Virus, i don't think i'd emotionally recover
I don’t think these viruses are cool at all. There are ways to make computer art that don’t involve intruding on peoples lives and wasting their time. Getting those viruses would be so frustrating and the malware designers think it’s funny. If this art is lost that’s a good thing
@@idontwantachannelname yeah, but guess what, you've learnt your lesson and it won't happen again, nowadays if you get malware you won't even know most of the time
Honestly, it still exists! The TH-cam phone app is a great example of an adware so prolific that it comes pre-installed on many devices. And Google Chrome is a compelling example of spyware.
windows sincerely can act like malware with the updates I have to go an absurd level to stop it even with update blocker I also need to keep bluetooth off cause surpise! it can forcibly update you via it!
As a kid I managed to download malware alongside a game onto my dad’s laptop that he kept in his shop. All it did was play faint ghostly noises every now and then, it was like his laptop was haunted.
@@Cr-od9do why is the most of this comment section people talking about some virus where in some time period of the payload it would play some sound (bonus points if it goes with a picture)
(deleted my original comment, wanted to watch the video fully to check if it mentioned them) I’m mostly worried about RATs, dont research them if your afraid of malware
Same, I accidentally destroyed my first computer when I downloaded a virus because I wanted to pirate games. I still get nightmares of it from time to time, even if it sounds insignificant and silly. Though I love watching these kinds of videos, people dissecting or playing with viruses, etc. lol
I feel like malware isn't even really a thing anymore for the most part. Usually it's just ads that lead someone into a scam or some other social engineering thing to get credentials.
@@CrabbChips Low effort? Have you seen the effort required to stay undetected? And in the past you had to run an executable. Nowadays you have incredibly complex malware using incredibly complex methods to gain access without the user even knowingly executing something. Look at ForcedEntry. It basically implements it's own processor architecture to run code where it shouldn't and uses that for a sandbox escape.
The good thing is there's less malware targeting end users these days. Hackers have figured out there's no real money to be made in trying to ransomware Grandma's computer & demanding Bitcoin. Instead, they mostly go after bigger fish, trying to ransomware companies and other large entities.
No but grandma’s computer is probably the most likely target of everyday users. If they’re targeting everyday people it’s people who are more likely to be gullible/forgetful/confused by technology/etc, things that are much more likely in older people. Maybe 6 years ago or so my grandma managed to get ransomware on her computer, and despite my dad’s best efforts to help, she just permanently lost a bunch of files and it was a really upsetting experience for my entire family. And then a few years later, maybe 2019 or 2020, my grandma on the other side of the family fell for some scam where she let people have remote access to her computer, and in that case it scared her so bad she literally refuses to use a computer again, and we honestly don’t know the state of that computer were it to be turned back on. Elderly people really are the target audience for scammers who are trying to go for everyday people as opposed to larger entities
I want someone to make a worm that just pops up with an informative text document or video of why clicking on sketchy links or visiting sketchy websites bad and explaining how they got the worm on their system
this basically happened in my school district. someone got into the district database by someone clicking a link or smth and the hacker or whatever sent everyone in the district an email that looked like it was formatted from the district office and it basically said ‘hey! anyone can send an email that looks like it’s official. don’t click random links!!’
my dad did this for his cybersecurity course, lmao -- dropped usb keys on the street that, when opened, do a fake-out scare followed by "don't plug random things into your computer. this is why." fun stuff!
Lol that reminded me of a time where it was either me or my cousin who ran out of disc space and tried to delete something by moving it into the recycle bin and emptying it, and the laptop brought up one of those "You need [amount of space] to copy/move the file" or something along those lines.
what i love about rensenware is that the creator accidentally infected himself and couldnt reach the score requirement. thats what we gamers call a skill issue
I know a lot of people are talking about how they want the old malware back, but i'm here just that I'd rather have neither! Malware might be fun to look at, but it's never as fun when you're the victim.
Malware will always exist, so if it's gonna exist, we'd rather it at least be funny instead of boring malware that demands your money. I like the harmless funny stuff - it's just silly and might be annoying
@@bitotaruAsking for your PC to not be obliterated isn't being a Karen mate, Demanding an artist for free art while you pay them in exposure bucks is what makes you a Karen. Don't go parroting terms you don't know just 'cuz your skin is thick enough to get you a job as a reddit mod.
makes me sad that malware turned into lazy scams nowadays. im deathly afraid of malware, but i always found their intricate and cool ways of well, destroying your computer, to be cool. my dad owns a computer shop and i always ask him if he has any stories about viruses, but now its just stupid scams. :(
Even viruses used to be creative in so many ways, it's amazing I've lived to see the day where it used to be very unknown and "scary" but nowadays it's just pathetic and lazy. Malware used to be art, now it's just distorted and used for the giant Corporate and War Machines that drive our entire base economy... It's kinda sad to see, that an extension of ourselves and the stars, being computers (and us, plants, animals etc.) on a literal atomic-subatomic level being perverted into such dystopian means of use when we could have been exploring the very stars we're all made out of by the 80's-90's already. I feel very sorry for our species because of this but still we should praise the good and use of* technology some of us try to do to prevent a slide back into barbarism, bigotry and ignorance which is already so rife and has been for a while in our world. Hopefully the future can be better.
Well you got realize security has also gotten insane in the past few years. Most malware doesn't work on newer computers or is going to get detected immediately. Most hackers target big corporations because the reward vs risk on regular users isn't worth it.
my friend once made a virus that sent the remote Control key to his email and he turned off the whole school computer lab every 5 minutes my teacher just laughed it off
What if someone made a worm that actually updates a specific program, like photoshop or something, with a custom update that actually improves the quality, or adds new useful features? That would be kinda funny tbh.
Loved the video! As a member of the now dissolved hobbyist malware writer group (we parted ways, many of us have a job in the low-level software engineering field, and there's no time or really anything undiscovered left), I can't thank you enough for shining light on what malware is supposed to be. As a tribute to the community and in memory of the people we miss, me and my good friend are writing the final malware that'll be a logical end to our group's work. That topic is personal for me, so thank you a lot for making this video conveying such a simple, but a striking point. ❤
i actually had my old pc be infected with ransomware!! it was my old laptop that i used to play oblivion and other games on when i was little. i'm not even sure when it happened, but i found it and thought "oh! havent touched this in years itd be fun to look back!" only to have all my games and random songs encrypted. thankfully there wasnt anything useful on there after not using it for years.
My mom got her master's in computer science in the mid 90s and sometimes tells of the shenanigans some of her peers and colleagues got into to prank eachother. All more or less harmless stuff to have some fun like error messages telling you to "please pump the water out of the hard drive" or later making all the letters in your document fall down.
i really wanna see a non-destructive malware manage to make headlines by making every computer play the dancing gandalf video at the same time for 1 minute, then delete only itself and leave everything else maybe leaving behind a simple message to remember it happened, maybe a little game that doesn't have any malware.
Finally a good video about this subject. I love that you didn't just finish at MEMZ but also showed some of the later way more impressive stuff that never got as "viral" as my shitty meme trojan.
I feel like Rick rolls and derivatives like getting stick-bugged are sort of like modern non-destructive malware. They are fun and only waste your time but aren’t dangerous or destructive.
There’s one interesting benefit to joke malware like Memz, that’s when you use it to completely melt a tech scammer’s computer while listening to them absolutely panic. There is nothing quite more satisfying.
I remember overloading my old stupid Disney laptop with malware as a stupid middle schooler. Though all I got was like... buckets of adware. Nothing fun. So much that my computer just... Didn't load anymore. I remember sneaking outside and throwing it in the trash without telling anyone cause i didn't want anybody to know that I was pirating video games very very poorly.
Viruses then: I will make you visualize a scientifically accurate acid trip through your monitor before bricking your motherboard Viruses now: C-can you please go onto your bank's site so I can steal your account info?
Same thing here. I remember there was a tv-show in my country that ran every sunday. It was a science/informative-things-you-should-know kind of thing. One episode was abiut computer viruses, and they showed the "laughing skyll" virus. 5 year old me found that shit terrifying and it haunted my nightmares for months.
Wait, Malware's full name is malicious software? I thought it was malfunctioning software (As opoosed to intentionally screwing users up by messing with the OS.)
In my opinion, coding or anything related to a computer was a really obscure niche in the 90s. And much like the pilots in WW1, the computer enthusiasts/malware makers acted much more civil to eachother because the activity they were partaking in was so niche that every fellow nerds/pilots is a potential best pal. Plus, it takes skills to achive such feats -> they made it into a sport where sportmanship was encouraged. Nowadays, as hacking and coding have become more mainstream than ever, combined with our society's shift to materialism, hacking has become nothing more than a fluke, sadly.
I remember watching a live streamer open trojan on April Fools Day of all days, and the exe was titled “Google” iirc. Obviously it didn’t open up google, but what it did was constantly open and close the disc drives and fuck with the speakers, only for it to crescendo with a fucking jump scare at max volume. It was like some red demon thing? The cherry on top was that it plays twice. Best part? I saw that at 2 am waking up my family LMAO
I do wanna learn more about Malware because that stuff really interests me, but Jesus do I fucking hate that there’s malware that have jumpscares in them. Like one of my weirdest fears as a kid turned true
This is such a brilliantly informative and engaging video. Your explanations are so concise. I love how your editing matches the era you're talking about - you have tracker music for the DOS era in the 1980s and MIDI music for the 1990s. So cool.
If I were to ever make my own malware it would be less malicious and more mischievous. I would want to make something that could get a scare or laugh out of people but not leave any lasting damage. Maybe force people to play Saw inspired games to save their files or something.
I always wanted to make my own virus/trojan with the payload being a simple .txt file. The text file would be a simple message telling the user that they weren't careful, and they should be more careful. Simple, harmless, and hopefully would educate the user on Internet safety.
3 minutes in and I've already had probably the best explanation for what malware is to date. You explain the different categories so succinctly! Amazing job!!
I don't dream that often and very rarely I have nightmares. But when I do, it's ALWAYS about my computer/phone getting a virus. The sense of uncontrollability of the technology really scares me. Also because nowdays we have a lot of important informations in computers and phones, so the idea of losing them drives me crazy. The funny thing is that I never dream about killers, ghosts, demons or monsters in general. If it is a nightmare, its about technology.
my computers been having blue screen issues recently so seeing a blue screen in the first video i watch after i boot up my computer caught me wayyyyy off gaurd
Bro, i just gotta say, thank you so much for actually including the music you used with links and the videos too. Idk how many times I've watched a video, recognized a tune sand then couldn't remember what it was. Or other times I've heard a song that was really good, but wasn't able to identify it with shazam or any other software. Thank you so much. I wish every TH-camr did that.
at around 6:59 my entire browser just crashed which this was probably the worst video for me to be watching when my browser crashed, that honestly scared me.
@@clementineshetheyfae8312 maybe Firefox/Vivaldi? Opera gx is convinent though, I swapped only after I got hacked (probably not because of opera but still, safety)
@@superNova5837 i joined the IRC chat. Was a busy day. I will remember it bc it’s the same day the skies turned orange in NYC. I also made a logo but Unascribed’s logo is way better so it is what we know and love (to be fair mine was trash)
Malware then: "i bricked your pc, stole your identity oh and also your GPU just exploded"😂 Malware now: "mnmmm im a crypwto miner, ill steal 0,5% of your CPU pweease dont notice me or i self destruct" 😢
14:15 made me scared for a sec cause i got my Isaac from not steam ;) and its currently opened up so the way he just said it could be a bitcoin miner made me feel like im being spywared
Gooey is the accepted (usually) pronunciation of GUI by many people in IT related fields. In fact, I rarely heard people in IT pronounce it as Gee-you-I
@@carsiccl in my opinion they both are valid but pronouncing it “gooey”is faster and better for my way of speaking. i apologize for being blunt in my first comment
bro if only bonzibuddy tier shit was still around to make computers interesting even with malware. The thing that kills my love for tech and the future is remembering growing up in the frutiger aero era, using a wii/ds, using the old bubbly round clear library computer and my grandma's imac (the early pink one) etc. It feels like all the whimsy and fun is gone now, from everything...
This was an amazing video! I can see you're also a danooct1 fan too! Funny how I never used Windows 9x when I was a child, but I know so much about it. That's thanks to Dan, because those viruses showcases made me passionate about PCs and shaped me to who I am now.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE old malware, its so interesting to me, and even some of the new ones too but like i just find them all so interesting and has been a special interest of mine since i was little, I always watched Danooct1's content because it was so interesting on how they functioned esp in the 80s-2000s
Seeing that title gave me the mental image of someone singing "Old Grey Mare", but instead of "old grey mare" it's "old malware". She ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be...
I made a trojan once, specifically for Windows 2000 and WinNT. Didn't do much, all it did was copy itself to your startup folder, play Dogsong from Undertale, and repeatedly pop up error messages that say "GET DUNKED ON!". It was super easy to write (written in C++ using the SDL and Windows libraries, and used a lot of SYSTEM commands to copy itself over to the startup folder, the whole thing was probably 30 lines or so), and super easy to remove (remove it from the startup folder). But it was just silly fun. If I were to actually "distribute" it (wouldn't work on modern computers anyway, it was written for Windows NT file structures) I would have hosted the audio file remotely and had the program download it first, but there's no point in doing that.
We need some sort of "funware" hosting service where people can upload their programs (audited of course) that don't do anything bad, instead they just look cool or do cool things.
It really feels like the internet started out so wholesome. Just a bunch of tech savvy people making jokes and chatting and sharing stuff. But all the well meaning stuff (video sharing, forums, even early viruses!) eventually morphed into all the awful toxicity that exists today
My brother once got the gay porn virus. What it did was make a popup window that would move around the screen and setting laptop speakers to max yell HEY I'M WATHCING GAY PORN. over and over.
my favorite malware back in the day was the kind that just turned random text strings anywhere into ad URLs lmao Like. That's just normal website behavior nowadays. It's sad
In the 90s my friend's dad had some kind of malware that would make his computer play Yankee Doodle at 5pm every day, and apparently he didn't really mind it because it reminded him to leave work a go home.
Here's some malware i wanna see: Ransomware that makes you solve a math equation before you can access your files. Randomly turning your pc off and then on again. Bringing up the overlay randomly when you watch a youtube video. Ransomware that appears to be your typical "gimme your money or files go bye bye", but after 5-10 seconds, it goes "nah, just kidding" and unencrypts everything. When certain conditions are met, a 144p resolution gman appears and goes "good day bitch." Before dissappearing. Also the sound is bitcrushed as much as you possibly can get it.
idk if you’ll read this but i remember seeing you on tiktok ages ago debunking EAS sounds n found your knowledge really interesting..n now you’ve appeared in my recommended talking about computer viruses,!?! u even named all my funny personal favourites like parrot and magold..you’ve definitely earned a subscriber and i shall be binge watching all of ur videos sir ur so cool
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It’s sad even malware has gotten corporatized and boring
modern culture incentives killing off your individual psyche and soul. but that isnt inherently corporate blame but they do piggyback off the problem. its easy to sell to consumists
You can thank the intelligence agencies of the world for that one
Capitalism truly Ruins everything xD
@@theedicatorlps6097 i dont think capitalism is inherently the issue, its piggybacking off a system of complacency
i'd rather have a malware that makes me pay to decrypt my info than something that makes my pc shit itself and never turn on again
I remember a friend of mine got a pretty shitty virus back in the day. As far as I know, it didn't do anything really malicious besides being annoying. But basically every 30 minutes or so, a picture of a pig would show up on screen along with really loud pig noises.
Lmao
Hahahahahhahahah
I would pay for that. What a lucky man
So some hackers back then were shitposters?
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah rofl
Nobody these days goes through the artistry of constructing a purple ape that sings Daisy in order to backdoor your computer. A crying shame.
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@@Ergo3983 yes please
or creating a exact replica of the pikachu website where pikachu literally ASKS if it can destroy your computer, such a shame
daisy, daisy, give me your answer do, im half crazy, just for the love of you! it wont be a stylish marriage, i cant afford a carriage. but you'll look sweet, upon a seat, of a bicycle built for 2.
I’ve always wanted to make a worm that is literally a worm, and I want to name it Wormagotchi. It would just place an executable file on your desktop that would be a tamagotchi but a worm. And have a button with on it that uninstalls the worm, places the Wormagotchi data in a zip in an app data file, then leaves a folder on the desktop with a .txt with the worm saying goodbye to the user in it, and a .png that’s a screenshot of your desktop but with the worm sleeping in the foreground.
If you got reinfected, the data would be retrieved, and a pop up saying something along the lines of “worm has returned from its trip!” would appear when launching the file explorer.
Honestly such a cute idea but that's the kind of thing I was wondering about it would be cool if instead of the usual stuff malware does you get a game that also sends itself to your friends to play once you've beaten it I feel like thar could be a very cool concept, like how some games change your desktop background and such as part of the experience
But it also like self deletes itself once you beat it too (after sending itself to someone else)
cool idea, if I(or someone else) learn how to program malware that interacts with the system AND other apps, then I might make something like it, but I'm not a good game Dev to make the tomagotchi
if the worm dies, so do your files
@@theJennicatso there’s only really one live copy at a time
I've had a rat once (Remote Access Trojan) one day I came back to my computer to see my cursor moving towards my steam wallet, I moved my mouse and that probably scared them because they stopped. needless to say I had to deep clean my pc. one of the scariest moments I've ever experienced though.
You honestly should've fucked around with them
That's fucking hilarious. That's like waking up in the middle of the night to someone reaching through your window trying to grab your wallet and you smacking their wrist and them running off. Scary for sure, but goofy as hell.
I would pull up notepad and write "you wanna fucking go bro?"
When I figured out I got infected with a troyan (keylogger & console access) I opened a random login page (think it was youtube) and, in the password, field i just cussed out the guy that hijacked my pc in the hopes they'd read it before unplugged the internet cable after pressing log in. Formatted my computer afterwards
That's like a primal fear a have. Having my computer do shit on it's own out of my control scares me, but if I had a RAT Virus, i don't think i'd emotionally recover
Honestly classic malware that screws with your computer, and doesn't destroy anything is a long lost art.
People have made really cool stuff in DOS.
It's not necessarily "long lost" it's just getting yeeted by the OS immediately lol
I don’t think these viruses are cool at all. There are ways to make computer art that don’t involve intruding on peoples lives and wasting their time. Getting those viruses would be so frustrating and the malware designers think it’s funny. If this art is lost that’s a good thing
@@idontwantachannelname People like you are why we cant have nice things
@@idontwantachannelname if your computer is usable after you get a free art show, and a very valuable lesson to be safe online
@@idontwantachannelname yeah, but guess what, you've learnt your lesson and it won't happen again, nowadays if you get malware you won't even know most of the time
Malware used to be interesting - Now it's just your operating system.
LOL
certified windows moment
Honestly, it still exists! The TH-cam phone app is a great example of an adware so prolific that it comes pre-installed on many devices. And Google Chrome is a compelling example of spyware.
windows sincerely can act like malware with the updates I have to go an absurd level to stop it even with update blocker I also need to keep bluetooth off cause surpise! it can forcibly update you via it!
@@Adric101 what? ios does the same thing.
As a kid I managed to download malware alongside a game onto my dad’s laptop that he kept in his shop. All it did was play faint ghostly noises every now and then, it was like his laptop was haunted.
that's a brilliant troll honestly
@@mellihelli my dad once downloaded something fishy to his laptop and it kept randomly moaning every hour
@@Cr-od9do yo?
@@Cr-od9do why is the most of this comment section people talking about some virus where in some time period of the payload it would play some sound (bonus points if it goes with a picture)
malware is one of my biggest fears, and i’ve had a few nightmares where it happens to me
and yet i still watch these kinds of videos
Same
im scared of how much that matches up to me
(deleted my original comment, wanted to watch the video fully to check if it mentioned them) I’m mostly worried about RATs, dont research them if your afraid of malware
@@bounceysteve Virustotal and related websites are your best friend if you're a novice
Same, I accidentally destroyed my first computer when I downloaded a virus because I wanted to pirate games. I still get nightmares of it from time to time, even if it sounds insignificant and silly. Though I love watching these kinds of videos, people dissecting or playing with viruses, etc. lol
I feel like malware isn't even really a thing anymore for the most part. Usually it's just ads that lead someone into a scam or some other social engineering thing to get credentials.
nowadays malware tries to stay undetected and tries to obtain as many credentials as it can
It's almost embarrassing how low effort modern malware is
@@chri-k niko
@@CrabbChips why does it need to be high-effort if you can get results with low-effort? there's no art here and there wasn't meant to be any.
@@CrabbChips Low effort? Have you seen the effort required to stay undetected? And in the past you had to run an executable. Nowadays you have incredibly complex malware using incredibly complex methods to gain access without the user even knowingly executing something. Look at ForcedEntry. It basically implements it's own processor architecture to run code where it shouldn't and uses that for a sandbox escape.
The good thing is there's less malware targeting end users these days. Hackers have figured out there's no real money to be made in trying to ransomware Grandma's computer & demanding Bitcoin. Instead, they mostly go after bigger fish, trying to ransomware companies and other large entities.
it’s apparently a “good” thing they’re targeting government databases and threatening nations and scientific organizations like NASA now
I would say the opposite. There are millions maybe even billions of viruses that spy on you, steal your info, or just fck up your pc.
I'm pretty sure it has only increased, that background crypto mining crap is everywhere.
No but grandma’s computer is probably the most likely target of everyday users. If they’re targeting everyday people it’s people who are more likely to be gullible/forgetful/confused by technology/etc, things that are much more likely in older people. Maybe 6 years ago or so my grandma managed to get ransomware on her computer, and despite my dad’s best efforts to help, she just permanently lost a bunch of files and it was a really upsetting experience for my entire family. And then a few years later, maybe 2019 or 2020, my grandma on the other side of the family fell for some scam where she let people have remote access to her computer, and in that case it scared her so bad she literally refuses to use a computer again, and we honestly don’t know the state of that computer were it to be turned back on. Elderly people really are the target audience for scammers who are trying to go for everyday people as opposed to larger entities
Most malware is undetected, hackers figured it's less of a hassle to just run cyrpto-miners/botnets than try to ransom money from random people.
I want someone to make a worm that just pops up with an informative text document or video of why clicking on sketchy links or visiting sketchy websites bad and explaining how they got the worm on their system
That made me envision a worm that "infects" your computer with anti-malware software and scolds you for catching it
@@RandomPerson8492Momware
this basically happened in my school district. someone got into the district database by someone clicking a link or smth and the hacker or whatever sent everyone in the district an email that looked like it was formatted from the district office and it basically said ‘hey! anyone can send an email that looks like it’s official. don’t click random links!!’
my dad did this for his cybersecurity course, lmao -- dropped usb keys on the street that, when opened, do a fake-out scare followed by "don't plug random things into your computer. this is why." fun stuff!
That's illegal. I will only test/analyse malware on a VM.
"The file can't be removed because the file has malware." You had one job.
(yes this is a real thing, the error code is 0x800700e1)
Lol that reminded me of a time where it was either me or my cousin who ran out of disc space and tried to delete something by moving it into the recycle bin and emptying it, and the laptop brought up one of those "You need [amount of space] to copy/move the file" or something along those lines.
@@sunkfnf2406well, ide say it's terminal rm time
Maybe to prevent onDelete functions? (pretty sure thats NOT what theyre called; but you know what I mean)
@@EinFelsbrockenno way that exists
Micro$oft.
what i love about rensenware is that the creator accidentally infected himself and couldnt reach the score requirement. thats what we gamers call a skill issue
that is mentioned in the video
@@bingbof No it's not
@@therealoxlong yes it is. At like 17:15
nice video! glad to see Rensenware mentioned, i would love to see the US government call up the best Touhou players to decrypt the Pentagon.
i find it necessary to mention that youtube’s auto replies for this comment included “great suggestion!” and “that would be cool!”
@@nimkIt would be.
I'd love to see this, maybe one day a mad lad will do this and get away with it too
@@nimk Hahaha, now that is funny! On an unrelated note, remember to pay your taxes, fellow geeks!
That'd make for a great movie
Back when malware writers were less malicious than youtube "prank" channels.
good lord you’re right and i hate it 😭
@@blizzard_the_seal9863 “it’s just a social experiment”
ngl, the less malicious ones could be really fun ways to fuck around before a system reset if you're already planning on that
"You've been infected with the fat ransomeware. To decrypt your files you must reach level 600 in League of Legends"
ah, my computer was never important anyway
I think I'd rather give them every single property I own at that point. Result's the same anyway.
NOOOOOO
Good thing I have LoL installed on my mac
(Ive never opened it dw)
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Wait Idk my password
i dont have time to play that much league 😭 ive been playing since december and im not even lvl 100
Carrying on the windows destruction legacy… vsauce Joey would be proud
Vinesauce Joel?
@@tallreversdwhat do you think
@@Chitose_ bro you being so hostile for no reason lmao
joey is kind of a real roast though. tj collins 😂
Vinesauce Joel
I know a lot of people are talking about how they want the old malware back, but i'm here just that I'd rather have neither! Malware might be fun to look at, but it's never as fun when you're the victim.
Malware will always exist, so if it's gonna exist, we'd rather it at least be funny instead of boring malware that demands your money. I like the harmless funny stuff - it's just silly and might be annoying
We've got a Karen over here lmao, if you're not just straight up tech illiterate then it's not a big deal
@@bitotaru Politely stating an opinion is absolutely NOT the same thing as being a Karen. That term is way too overused.
@@bitotaru So tech illiterate people deserve to get scammed?
@@bitotaruAsking for your PC to not be obliterated isn't being a Karen mate, Demanding an artist for free art while you pay them in exposure bucks is what makes you a Karen. Don't go parroting terms you don't know just 'cuz your skin is thick enough to get you a job as a reddit mod.
makes me sad that malware turned into lazy scams nowadays. im deathly afraid of malware, but i always found their intricate and cool ways of well, destroying your computer, to be cool. my dad owns a computer shop and i always ask him if he has any stories about viruses, but now its just stupid scams. :(
Even viruses used to be creative in so many ways, it's amazing I've lived to see the day where it used to be very unknown and "scary" but nowadays it's just pathetic and lazy. Malware used to be art, now it's just distorted and used for the giant Corporate and War Machines that drive our entire base economy... It's kinda sad to see, that an extension of ourselves and the stars, being computers (and us, plants, animals etc.) on a literal atomic-subatomic level being perverted into such dystopian means of use when we could have been exploring the very stars we're all made out of by the 80's-90's already. I feel very sorry for our species because of this but still we should praise the good and use of* technology some of us try to do to prevent a slide back into barbarism, bigotry and ignorance which is already so rife and has been for a while in our world. Hopefully the future can be better.
Malware elevated from targeting end users, they target organizations now and are far more complex and sophisticated
Sulfoxide: Do I look like a scam to you?
@@NotCCR why are all TH-cam commenters so unoriginal and cringe dude
Well you got realize security has also gotten insane in the past few years. Most malware doesn't work on newer computers or is going to get detected immediately. Most hackers target big corporations because the reward vs risk on regular users isn't worth it.
my friend once made a virus that sent the remote Control key to his email and he turned off the whole school computer lab every 5 minutes my teacher just laughed it off
@UnitTrace it's fun. our school lets us install adb drivers and stuff
@@oliwierw3460I put touhou 19 on every school computer acc because school had a bad security I was a hero never got caught
@@oliwierw3460 we can do anything that doesn’t need administrator permissions
What if someone made a worm that actually updates a specific program, like photoshop or something, with a custom update that actually improves the quality, or adds new useful features? That would be kinda funny tbh.
malware that turns paying copies of photoshop into pirated ones that don't give adobe money :3c
@@electrocastCalm down satin
that is not a devilish idea it is a BLESSED ONE
What if someone put a real actual worm in your computer to help speed it up
That's not malware. That's niceware.
Loved the video! As a member of the now dissolved hobbyist malware writer group (we parted ways, many of us have a job in the low-level software engineering field, and there's no time or really anything undiscovered left), I can't thank you enough for shining light on what malware is supposed to be. As a tribute to the community and in memory of the people we miss, me and my good friend are writing the final malware that'll be a logical end to our group's work. That topic is personal for me, so thank you a lot for making this video conveying such a simple, but a striking point. ❤
time for the replies to be filled by endermanch fans
Toe toe biggie biggie
gloink
Generic modern viruses >>> Generic new GDI viruses
@@poochychin yep
i actually had my old pc be infected with ransomware!! it was my old laptop that i used to play oblivion and other games on when i was little. i'm not even sure when it happened, but i found it and thought "oh! havent touched this in years itd be fun to look back!" only to have all my games and random songs encrypted. thankfully there wasnt anything useful on there after not using it for years.
Its pretty rare to find the ones that actually encrypt your shit, you got really unlucky
@@CAMSLAYER13 Swipe the disk drive, reinstall windows, problem solved.
@@CAMSLAYER13Wait, then what do the other ones do?
@@ChaoticKris964 they just fill your screen with some bullshit on boot
@@CAMSLAYER13 Thanks!
My mom got her master's in computer science in the mid 90s and sometimes tells of the shenanigans some of her peers and colleagues got into to prank eachother. All more or less harmless stuff to have some fun like error messages telling you to "please pump the water out of the hard drive" or later making all the letters in your document fall down.
i really wanna see a non-destructive malware manage to make headlines by making every computer play the dancing gandalf video at the same time for 1 minute, then delete only itself and leave everything else
maybe leaving behind a simple message to remember it happened, maybe a little game that doesn't have any malware.
or just a gif of said meme
Finally a good video about this subject. I love that you didn't just finish at MEMZ but also showed some of the later way more impressive stuff that never got as "viral" as my shitty meme trojan.
I once downloaded what I thought was an antivirus that destroyed my laptop, that I had to switch to a new one.
oh my god that is so ironic lmfao 😭😭
average mcafee experience
someone actually downloaded a pirate version of Norton, which proceeded to detect itself as a threat and remove itself.
@@SuperPupperDoggo sudoku
Ironically enough, anti-viruses tend to be common placeholders for actual viruses
I miss when viruses were something that looked actually component instead of bullshit pop-ups that appear when im trying to pirate anime
yeah. I dont want single women in bikinis on my screen, i want a free video game from a sketchy ass website
@Idontknow-fc3qm where the fuck are you pirating it then??
@@Engel-07 nyaa dot fucking si
@@Engel-07I find them in a torrent on a nearby mountain
@UnitTrace bit hypocritical coming from the guy in 5 kilometers of hot single milfs
its so nice to see a video on the progression of malware over the years
also omg ur humor is amazing! i died at the bad apple joke lmao
You got hearted because you laughed at the bad Apple joke
spanska really made malicious code into an art form without being malicious, 10/10
I feel like Rick rolls and derivatives like getting stick-bugged are sort of like modern non-destructive malware. They are fun and only waste your time but aren’t dangerous or destructive.
those are just called bait and switches
@@kellymountainngl i love bait-switch horror games
There’s one interesting benefit to joke malware like Memz, that’s when you use it to completely melt a tech scammer’s computer while listening to them absolutely panic. There is nothing quite more satisfying.
I remember overloading my old stupid Disney laptop with malware as a stupid middle schooler.
Though all I got was like... buckets of adware. Nothing fun.
So much that my computer just... Didn't load anymore.
I remember sneaking outside and throwing it in the trash without telling anyone cause i didn't want anybody to know that I was pirating video games very very poorly.
You must have lived a good childhood to just throw out tech lol Xd
@@crazydragy4233 The opposite. I didn't wanna get beat for bricking my laptop.
@@abrasivesoup I meant affluent, I wouldn't have thought of getting rid of my decade old hand me down tech in my dreams, even if I bricked it
@@crazydragy4233 Affluent because he had one laptop and threw it away?
@@VivianVortex Throwing away luxuries (which tech for a child, esp back then) isn't exactly a poor people thing
Viruses then: I will make you visualize a scientifically accurate acid trip through your monitor before bricking your motherboard
Viruses now: C-can you please go onto your bank's site so I can steal your account info?
They dont even do that anymore. They just put a cryptominer or sell your info
As a kid i used to be so scared of malware that i used to have nightmares about it...
Same thing here. I remember there was a tv-show in my country that ran every sunday. It was a science/informative-things-you-should-know kind of thing. One episode was abiut computer viruses, and they showed the "laughing skyll" virus. 5 year old me found that shit terrifying and it haunted my nightmares for months.
Same lmaooo
Literally same here. It used to scare me SO bad. I dont even really know why.
"Malware (malicious software) wasn't always for malicious purposes"
Quite the statement.
it was....idk if this is a real definition, jerkware.
i mean the first computer worm wasn’t intended for malicious purposes - it was a test to see if a computer program could be self replicating
Wait, Malware's full name is malicious software? I thought it was malfunctioning software (As opoosed to intentionally screwing users up by messing with the OS.)
In my opinion, coding or anything related to a computer was a really obscure niche in the 90s.
And much like the pilots in WW1, the computer enthusiasts/malware makers acted much more civil to eachother because the activity they were partaking in was so niche that every fellow nerds/pilots is a potential best pal. Plus, it takes skills to achive such feats -> they made it into a sport where sportmanship was encouraged.
Nowadays, as hacking and coding have become more mainstream than ever, combined with our society's shift to materialism, hacking has become nothing more than a fluke, sadly.
Good point!
I think society wasnt less materialistic then, but nerds were so far removed from the rest of society that they probably were far less so
I remember watching a live streamer open trojan on April Fools Day of all days, and the exe was titled “Google” iirc. Obviously it didn’t open up google, but what it did was constantly open and close the disc drives and fuck with the speakers, only for it to crescendo with a fucking jump scare at max volume. It was like some red demon thing? The cherry on top was that it plays twice.
Best part? I saw that at 2 am waking up my family LMAO
I do wanna learn more about Malware because that stuff really interests me, but Jesus do I fucking hate that there’s malware that have jumpscares in them. Like one of my weirdest fears as a kid turned true
malware is interesting and i'm glad someone's finally talking about it despite it being harmful, nice video honestly, you deserve a sub :)
I remember my dad infecting the computer with a virus that would open and close the CD drive. Blamed it on me with that sketchy Steam icon.
I absolutely love them! You can definitely tell they inspire pixelated horror/surreal games, 4-wall breaking games or even analog horror in a way
This is such a brilliantly informative and engaging video. Your explanations are so concise. I love how your editing matches the era you're talking about - you have tracker music for the DOS era in the 1980s and MIDI music for the 1990s. So cool.
If I were to ever make my own malware it would be less malicious and more mischievous. I would want to make something that could get a scare or laugh out of people but not leave any lasting damage. Maybe force people to play Saw inspired games to save their files or something.
I always wanted to make my own virus/trojan with the payload being a simple .txt file. The text file would be a simple message telling the user that they weren't careful, and they should be more careful.
Simple, harmless, and hopefully would educate the user on Internet safety.
3 minutes in and I've already had probably the best explanation for what malware is to date. You explain the different categories so succinctly! Amazing job!!
I don't dream that often and very rarely I have nightmares. But when I do, it's ALWAYS about my computer/phone getting a virus. The sense of uncontrollability of the technology really scares me.
Also because nowdays we have a lot of important informations in computers and phones, so the idea of losing them drives me crazy.
The funny thing is that I never dream about killers, ghosts, demons or monsters in general.
If it is a nightmare, its about technology.
my computers been having blue screen issues recently so seeing a blue screen in the first video i watch after i boot up my computer caught me wayyyyy off gaurd
I never knew malware could be harmless and fun.
Very informational and well put together video.
Literally did a fistpump when you mentioned Rensenware because I remembered hearing about it on Touhou Tumblr and I thought it was soooo cute and fun
Lmao
My favorite malware is the “I love you” malware. So simple yet sinister. God knows most would click on it today.
Bro, i just gotta say, thank you so much for actually including the music you used with links and the videos too. Idk how many times I've watched a video, recognized a tune sand then couldn't remember what it was. Or other times I've heard a song that was really good, but wasn't able to identify it with shazam or any other software. Thank you so much. I wish every TH-camr did that.
at around 6:59 my entire browser just crashed which this was probably the worst video for me to be watching when my browser crashed, that honestly scared me.
good old days when you didn't know what a piece of malware was gonna do.
I am so happy that rensenware got mentioned, its personally my favorite "return to form" malware, mostly because of it's beautiful simplicity
i love nimks videos i allways watch em when he posts em
also as someone that loves messing with computers i love this video
Someone needs to make a malware program that just opens this video whenever you open your browser
i’ve never heard of someone saying “gooey” for GUI, but i will now start doing this.
That's the standard pronunciation of it, lol
How did you say it before
It has been pronounced like that for at least 40 years. People always preferred to say GUI as a word instead of an acronym
@@IRCraziestTaxiG-U-I
God he was so annoying in Kirby’s dreamland 3!
0:05 i love how he talks about malware while running essentially a spyware to browse on the web
@@bagaco420 Is there any browser that isn’t?
@@clementineshetheyfae8312 Firefox with telemetry off
@@clementineshetheyfae8312 from what ive seen, most people trust firefox because it PROBABLY isnt a spyware i think
@@clementineshetheyfae8312 maybe Firefox/Vivaldi? Opera gx is convinent though, I swapped only after I got hacked (probably not because of opera but still, safety)
@@clementineshetheyfae8312 yes, mullvad browser, librewolf, brave, duckduckgo
i applaud you for using songs from two different chiptune composers, fits well with the theme of the video.
chiptune music is so good i need more for my arsenal of background music
@@nimk thats what im sayinnnnnn
There was also Fractureiser which was basically a Trojan in Minecraft mods, and was basically a bunch of RCE
it’s still modern money malware it steals your Minecraft and discord and cookies and stuff
Yeah that one was a mess for a lot of people
@@superNova5837 i joined the IRC chat. Was a busy day. I will remember it bc it’s the same day the skies turned orange in NYC. I also made a logo but Unascribed’s logo is way better so it is what we know and love (to be fair mine was trash)
Really enjoyed that video, it was like a Scott the Woz for Malware!
17:59 this is literally just breakcore, i would listen to this
@dyscophushopper ON GOD!!1!
Malware then: "i bricked your pc, stole your identity oh and also your GPU just exploded"😂
Malware now: "mnmmm im a crypwto miner, ill steal 0,5% of your CPU pweease dont notice me or i self destruct" 😢
malware then: malware
malware now: malware
uhm
14:15 made me scared for a sec cause i got my Isaac from not steam ;) and its currently opened up so the way he just said it could be a bitcoin miner made me feel like im being spywared
ah yes windows really changed the game with their "gooey"
that is the proper way to pronounce GUI
Gooey is the accepted (usually) pronunciation of GUI by many people in IT related fields. In fact, I rarely heard people in IT pronounce it as Gee-you-I
@@nimk in my opinion i think it's gee-you-eye
@@carsiccl in my opinion they both are valid but pronouncing it “gooey”is faster and better for my way of speaking. i apologize for being blunt in my first comment
@@nimk you're good 👍
just wanna say thank u for having captions ❤
I love how you made a video explaining how Malware isn't as fun as it used to be.
bro if only bonzibuddy tier shit was still around to make computers interesting even with malware.
The thing that kills my love for tech and the future is remembering growing up in the frutiger aero era, using a wii/ds, using the old bubbly round clear library computer and my grandma's imac (the early pink one) etc.
It feels like all the whimsy and fun is gone now, from everything...
bro was just drinking "TOTTALY REAL BEER" the whole intro
why do i always see touhou in the most unexpected places lol
This was an amazing video! I can see you're also a danooct1 fan too! Funny how I never used Windows 9x when I was a child, but I know so much about it. That's thanks to Dan, because those viruses showcases made me passionate about PCs and shaped me to who I am now.
I want to make a worm that prints all the paper/labels and uses all the colours just to annoy the user
I LOVE LOVE LOVE old malware, its so interesting to me, and even some of the new ones too but like i just find them all so interesting and has been a special interest of mine since i was little, I always watched Danooct1's content because it was so interesting on how they functioned esp in the 80s-2000s
the last part in the outro "I miss my files..."
I fucking laughed my ass off
Seeing that title gave me the mental image of someone singing "Old Grey Mare", but instead of "old grey mare" it's "old malware".
She ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be...
I made a trojan once, specifically for Windows 2000 and WinNT. Didn't do much, all it did was copy itself to your startup folder, play Dogsong from Undertale, and repeatedly pop up error messages that say "GET DUNKED ON!". It was super easy to write (written in C++ using the SDL and Windows libraries, and used a lot of SYSTEM commands to copy itself over to the startup folder, the whole thing was probably 30 lines or so), and super easy to remove (remove it from the startup folder). But it was just silly fun. If I were to actually "distribute" it (wouldn't work on modern computers anyway, it was written for Windows NT file structures) I would have hosted the audio file remotely and had the program download it first, but there's no point in doing that.
BRO I HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN UNDERTALE I WOULD LOVE THIS!
My favorite kind of malware is one that annoys you and screws with your computer a bit, but can be stopped at will, so
Imagine being a kid pirating stuff and stumbling into an acid trip and after a bluescreen everything goes back to normal.
We need some sort of "funware" hosting service where people can upload their programs (audited of course) that don't do anything bad, instead they just look cool or do cool things.
It really feels like the internet started out so wholesome. Just a bunch of tech savvy people making jokes and chatting and sharing stuff. But all the well meaning stuff (video sharing, forums, even early viruses!) eventually morphed into all the awful toxicity that exists today
18:59 amogus in the qr code 💀
I am hungarian and this is good to see that we are in this video.
also it is funny what it prints out.
If you expand the definition of life far enough some malware could be considered alive
this is extremely interesting. i will be thinking about this forever thank you
good thing people are making funny malware like GDI malware again
this makes me want to make a harmless virus for funsies
i once dropped a self made virus on myself by accident after trying to mess around with vbs popups
@@legitusername-zl7to smartest hacker on the planet:
@@cloverlovaniamy pc lags so much it crashes lfmao
My brother once got the gay porn virus. What it did was make a popup window that would move around the screen and setting laptop speakers to max yell HEY I'M WATHCING GAY PORN. over and over.
11:54 boss i cant work today i gotta puzzle my pc
my favorite malware back in the day was the kind that just turned random text strings anywhere into ad URLs lmao
Like. That's just normal website behavior nowadays. It's sad
While it's not really malware one unique piece of software is Suicide Linux which will delete itself if you make a mistake in the command line.
In the 90s my friend's dad had some kind of malware that would make his computer play Yankee Doodle at 5pm every day, and apparently he didn't really mind it because it reminded him to leave work a go home.
this video is really high quality. loved it
Here's some malware i wanna see:
Ransomware that makes you solve a math equation before you can access your files.
Randomly turning your pc off and then on again.
Bringing up the overlay randomly when you watch a youtube video.
Ransomware that appears to be your typical "gimme your money or files go bye bye", but after 5-10 seconds, it goes "nah, just kidding" and unencrypts everything.
When certain conditions are met, a 144p resolution gman appears and goes "good day bitch." Before dissappearing. Also the sound is bitcrushed as much as you possibly can get it.
I feel like these can't be called malware anymore because of the baggage that term carries. We need a new word...
Thus, I give you _Woware._
Ok
idk if you’ll read this but i remember seeing you on tiktok ages ago debunking EAS sounds n found your knowledge really interesting..n now you’ve appeared in my recommended talking about computer viruses,!?! u even named all my funny personal favourites like parrot and magold..you’ve definitely earned a subscriber and i shall be binge watching all of ur videos sir ur so cool
Kudos to the Jumpscare Lady for teaching me not to click on everything on the Internet.
13:50
Adding onto that, the year after that, NotPetya ran rampant and that variant never intended to give you back your files anyway.
16:54 i did NOT expect to see touhou on this video
oh my god your editing is too underrated i hope you get 100k in 2024