What's the dumbest thing you ever did to your computer anons? Obviously we all know much better now, but I know you've got a story tucked away somewhere about that time you deleted system32 because that nice internet man told you it would make your computer run faster. Or that time you removed the french language pack after getting your shiny new Ubuntu install up and running. Hit me with 'em, let's have a laugh and relive the days when we had to get the family PC running again before dad got back from work.
Fell for the most obvious phishing site ever made by some dickhead anon about a million years ago. Site made to look like Steam's website, there was supposedly a campaign where you could claim a copy of Portal for free (which should tell you how long ago this was), but of course you had to be logged in to do so. Since I always used the client, I'd never logged into Steam on my browser so I guess that's why I just entered my username and password without question lol. I was quick to change my password so nothing bad came out of it, mostly I just felt really fucking stupid and embarrassed lol
>>1076819701. Downloaded a bunch of porn from a shady website. Got my computer infected with a worm which eventually spread to my mom's computer and then when I brought my laptop to my grandma's place, it infected the whole family.It was a russian worm which displayed weird russian ads in browsers, literally in my CSGO sessions and other unexpected places like my file browser. One of them was a porn ad, so it was awkward with the family when everyone got that. I think it eventually went offline because it stopped working. In certain websites it didn't work so I stopped going to those websites which would trigger it. 2. Was downloading shady porn, again, in a deep web forum. The videos were legit, but one of the "videos" was actually just a .exe with a thumbnail that I thought was a video. It ran some weird command shit then quit. By then I was a bit more tech savvy, so I got rid of it by tracking my task manager and finding out it resided in the tmp folder of Windows. I've been infected a lot with malware before. I was dumb.
>>107681970first time i ever had a unix system of my own i opened up telnet to the internet unfiltered and was pwned within hoursoh and i used to use winders but i was super inexperienced and it was win98
>>107681970posted my face numerous times on 4chan and discord when i was growing up. still need to get those selfies out of the archive but theyre probably in some LLM training data already . a smart LLM could easily dox me and find an insane amount of embarrassing things ive said/done online
Gave my Bitwarden password to a friend because I was planning on committing suicide, decided not to, and 2 years later got one of my accounts stolen by that same friend after we'd fallen out because I forgot I did that.Also accidentally installed a virus because I blindly trusted the first google result for an obscure printer software. Not proud of either of those.
>>107682032I did this with WoW on a site that was, on the surface, a clone of their WotLK beta test application site. Some chink scammer used my account to do some farming, sold some mats I wanted to sell anyway, and had gotten me gkicked. By the time I recovered my account after waking up that evening (lol), there was a little more gold in it than when I had logged off last and I had to get a new ginvite. I don't know how I fell for that site, I have never been gotten by anything like that before or since, and the opportunities have been in the hundreds probably.
>>107682032this, many kids grew up and got fucked by the steam fishing shit. i knew it was a bad idea as well, deep down inside you feel it, but you ignore the danger (probably due to lack of exposure). I learned a valuable lesson that day, hopefully I don't need to learn another.
>>107681970Installed Windows.
>>107681970Just the usual shit kids do, fortunately never had lasting consequences.>try to download some a dbz movie using a limewire-esque program>after a few hours the download it's finished>it's bad quality porn>smartphones are are still kind of new>find a picture online claiming phones have a secret emergency battery partition you can access by calling a certain number>spend all day doing it thinking I was "extending" my battery>nothing ever happenedI probably did more stupid shit as well, but can't remember.
>>107681970Made my grandpa's PC boot to bluescreen because I deleted system critical folders.Sorry grandpa.At some point I was blamed for my dad's computer getting viruses, but now that I reflect on it, it's probably because dad kept download teen porn videos and random players from the internet. Dad, you sick fuck.
Downloaded Linux which wasn't compatible with my modem back then. Luckily I had the OEM Windows CD the computer came with, but deleted all my files in the process.
>>107681970>used windows activators>ran pirated games and software in bare metal windows install>had my user as system administrator>tried downloading random dll to fix a driver
I downloaded Norton Antivirus from KaZaA. It worked. But it also contained a virus. Norton was not able to remove this virus.
Dad buys a new Mac desktop model, maybe it was a G3 or G4, next day I open up the old beige Mac out of curiosity and start unscrewing and unplugging shit.It never turned on again ;_;
installing and learning linux. what huge steaming pile of tranny shit. overcomplicated, 1000 individual parts, always needs internet and has internet integration practically baked in. freaking terrible, made hate computers
>>107681970First time on Windows 95 operating system, have no clue what to be doing other than double clicking into directories. Went into the system32 folder and began to click on everything randomly until something opened. I had no idea what to do and no concept of how any of it worked until I could no longer boot probably because I deleted some boot files. It was at that point I began to research how to reinstall windows. Imagine trying to understand what an ISO file is at my level. It wasn't easy but my stubbornness won in the end.
