oatmilkmaid 80 points 3 years ago

This was me when my dad would use limewire, break the family PC, and blame me because I was playing “those video games”.

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Bonehead 56 points 3 years ago

This is just it. I used limewire for years and never got a virus. I was also not stupid enough to download "Brittany.Spears.Nude.Totally.Legit.Movie.avi.exe". It amazes me how completely blind some people are.

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darvocet 46 points 3 years ago

Why is the download not starting when I click on your link? Can you DM me the video?

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rumckle 10 points 3 years ago

Sure thing, just pm me your credit card details, for age verification purposes.

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EditsHisComments 9 points 3 years ago

That seems excessive but I can do that. Thank you for being so thorough - it makes me feel more secure :)

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PissinSelfNdriveway 16 points 3 years ago

Well 13 year old me with incredibly slow internet and no easy access to boobs wanted to see Brittany spears naked.

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buwho 10 points 3 years ago

I was like 11 and had no idea wth i was doing. but i sure downloaded a lot of stuff from Limewire..."why the hell is the computer so slow all of a sudden?!"

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cantstopthesignal 11 points 3 years ago

Like 47 god damn tool bars

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Kolanaki 56 points 3 years ago

Me: using safe browsing practices and only downloading from trusted sources

My Mom: downloading every toolbar in existence

My Mom: "You broke the computer!"

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JimmyDean 45 points 3 years ago

Early pirating was like playing the lottery.

Will I get the good version of a song or a weird remix?

Will the media play or be some unrecognized format?

What's making my pc run so slow?

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vd1n 17 points 3 years ago

You need real player and QuickTime

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veroxii 11 points 3 years ago

I remember running the 2 command line McAfee scan and clean commands. And it would tell you scanning for 15 known viruses or something lol. Then it became hundreds and eventually just changed into the tsr apps running in the background all the time.

Generally just booting from a clean disk with clean on it would make you the PC repair god.

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BlueSquid0741 29 points 3 years ago

Or in the 90s, finding the Windows directory, “there’s a lot of stuff in here, I bet I can free up a lot of space”

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DanglingFury 27 points 3 years ago

What the hell is explorer. And why is it using all the ram?

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spacedancer 7 points 3 years ago

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captainlezbian 4 points 3 years ago

You’re making me understand the reasons for all the bullshit that drove me to linux

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n3m37h 1 point 3 years ago

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altima_neo 9 points 3 years ago

system32.exe? WTF I dont need 32 of them. I just need one.

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happyhippo 22 points 3 years ago

This hurts. I still remember when I rendered our first family PC unbootable. It was a Pentium II 266 with a tiny 3GB HDD running Windows 98, and apparently some sub folder of system32 seemed a good place to start doing some clean up to win back some extra space.

Turns out, it wasn't.

Now turns have tabled and I'm the stereotypical IT professional who helps out fixing PCs/smartphones

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platysalty 14 points 3 years ago

And now I fix all the home PCs.

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Ado 12 points 3 years ago

My god man. This brings back a traumatic memory of me bricking my now brother-in-laws PC by trying to torrent a cracked version of counter strike. I was young and dumb and panicked. Entire hard drive was wiped without chance to backup. 😩

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filgas08 5 points 3 years ago

not much use but you can actually still access files if they weren't written upon since they are still there and only the address was destroyed. I did it once after accidentally wiping my hard drive and managed to get quite a lot of stuff back.

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CheesyGordita 12 points 3 years ago

This is how I got so good at computer IT stuff as a kid. Had to constantly clear our family computer of viruses and reinstall windows multiple times a year because my brothers would always download shit like “The fast and the furious-no-virus.mpg.exe”

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DragonAce 11 points 3 years ago

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Kratos 8 points 3 years ago

Oh god, this was me back when I was a kid (thankfully it was never permanently ruined). I also hid all my secret downloads in system32 so nobody would find them.

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DogMuffins 2 points 3 years ago

Oh man. Fucking around with config.bat having NFI what it did.

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danafest 8 points 3 years ago

This hits young me learning linux and dual booting straight in the feels. I can't even begin to count the amount of times I totally wrecked the family computer and had to reinstall windows from scratch.

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Durpadurp 8 points 3 years ago

Mid 2000s? Say wut? I think lImewire was dead by the mid 2000s?

More like 2000-2002 just downloaded a pirated new movie only to realize the file was mislabeled and it wasn't what I was expecting and now I have to go ham on the hard drive with 00 buck shot.

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SeeMinusMinus 8 points 3 years ago

Me and my little sister downloading minecraft mods and getting malware

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altima_neo 6 points 3 years ago

Thats my super power, there was no family PC. It was my PC.

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p000l 6 points 3 years ago

Limewire, Kazaa, Audiogalaxy and eDonkey! The first two were so risky!

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sarcasticsunrise 5 points 3 years ago

The amount of money I wasted using printer ink for "educational jpgs" when I had the house to myself.. I'm so sorry, my parents (90's dinosaur)

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PeterPoopshit 5 points 3 years ago

Once you figure out how to reinstall Windows XP your family and neighbors will think you're a computer god.

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MrJameGumb 4 points 3 years ago

That needs to be a BearShare logo for me lol

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MartinXYZ 2 points 3 years ago

I was in the iMesh gang at first.

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ChrislyBear 3 points 3 years ago

eMule

That's where you could find everything!

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Raxiel 2 points 3 years ago

I never got a virus from eMule, but so many misslabled files.

I downloaded a lot of music videos. One was allegedly a Rammstein track, but turned out to be a video about a girl and her dog if you know what I mean

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AlwaysNowNeverNotMe 2 points 3 years ago

"Were all living in Amerika"

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