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MetalMan88
Posts: 125/232 |
This guy's computer was owned... well, he owned his own computer. Check it out. (Note: Light cursing; though most of the heavy cursing was completely censored)
Edit: Then the link got owned. >.< |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4283/8210 |
I'm sure by "destroyed" they meant "put popups on the desktop they couldn't figure out how to remove".  |
MetalMan88
Posts: 124/232 |
One computer at school was killed by some rabid Kazaahead. One day it was there, the next day, it had been removed, never to be replaced. Apparently Kazaa destroyed it. |
KsoftFusion
Posts: 45/71 |
I seem to remember killing a Mac by somehow setting it to boot only from CD. We don't have any CD's that are bootable. |
BMF98567
Posts: 802/1261 |
I highly doubt you guys are finding thousands of individual spyware programs, as a computer would almost certainly crash or explode waaaaaay before you got to that point. Ad-Aware is probably finding lots of cookies and registry entries associated with the spyware programs, which are all counted separately. There are likely only a handful of actual processes running.
Heck, I'm sure Ad-Aware would find several hundred items on my computer, even though I can guarantee you there are no actual processes running.
Anyway...I killed our first computer, a lowly 386, by plugging in the keyboard while it was on. Several BEEBEEBEEBEEBEEEEEPs later...keyboard error, press F1 to resume. 
Next one, I tried to run Norton Disk Doctor (DOS) on a DoubleSpace-compressed drive. Bad, bad, bad move.
The rest of the computers pretty much died on their own (video card failure and fried power connector being the last ones I can remember), or were replaced with something incrementally faster. |
KsoftFusion
Posts: 44/71 |
I was just at my friend's house. They've had a computer for 4 years, my friend's sister runs Kazaa and other file-sharing programs a lot, and the computer is as slow as a dead slug. They had no spyware removal software, and their anti-virus didn't work. I went over and installed Ad-aware. 2277 spywares. Surprisingly, no viruses were found.
I destroyed a computer quite well once. When I was five, I wanted to install Kid Pix on an old 486 with Windows 3.1. There was not enough space, so I went and deleted "blank files", files with no association. I figured that all the data for a program was stored in the .exe, and that the extra files were there just to take up space. I installed it, and deleted it cause it was too slow. Turned it off. Came back the next day. Wouldn't boot into Windows. I had to get my uncle to restore it from the CD. |
MetalMan88
Posts: 116/232 |
Well, I'm not one to find viruses or rack up spyware, but I have seen computers physically owned.
I was nuts, and trying to stick a PCI 128 MB nVidia GeForce card into... an ancient 200 MHz MMX Pentium computer. I even got a 300 watt power supply for it! That was where it all went wrong...
I put in the power supply. I plugged everything in. I turned it on (without the new graphics card). I saw it start to boot up. So, I went.. 'It's working! It's working!' and ran downstairs to tell everybody. Meanwhile... the floppy drive caught on fire.
I came back up, to see a cloud of smoke. It was... THE BURNING FLOPPY DRIVE OF DOOM!!!!!! Needless to say, it was a horrible cleanup. The still-working but floppy-drive cable-less computer lays in my computer boneyard today.
Oh, and for a quick story, my Pentium 4 computer's power supply simultaneously exploded one day, burning holes in the wall with huge sparks. |
Violent J
Posts: 372/749 |
Well, sadly enough, i was fixing a piss poor slow pc at my stepdads friends house, which i got 20 bucks for, and it took two nights. Well, it turned up that his pc had 18,980(rounded) Spyware/Adware and 108(i believe exact) Viruses. I literally said out loud holy shit, and guy laughed(me being like 14 and all). So after being able to finally fix the damn thing, I got powerbombed with a little worm that crawled accross the screen. The thing look at me, and a word bubble pooped up from it with a bunch of corrupt text(like special letters) and then the PC shut down. So then, I restarted and Norton(this is a really old version mind you) came up saying it detected a worm, and it currently was destroying files, so it wanted to quarentine and repair. Well it did all that and when it was done a bunch of shortcuts and stuff were missing. His bg was gone and Word wouldnt open up and a bunch more. So now we load up the internet, and what happens? Well it shuts down. The whole PC...So I get a disk the next day with IE on it, reinstall it, and presto! Fixed. But there was one last thing. About an hour later, before i was gonna leave we were watching The Aprentice, and the damn fucking worm came back! I noticed it, and it said some more curropt text, with a bunch of backslashes at the end, and about 2 minutes after it dissapered, and the computer shut down. Restart. Norton. And then I decided to check his running procceses. Noticed one called rkl(and a few numbers and such).exe, looked it up on Google, and it happened to be a virus, undetectable ny Norton unless restart. So, it ran through how to manually remove it, and I did.
Then the PC worked fine, and I got a measly 20 dollars. It was about a 6 hours job all together...
And thats it. I think that PC was really fucking owned. Pwned even. Anyone who can top that can get a cookie. |
Prier
Posts: 5831/8392 |
Heh..
There came a time when I encountered a WIN95.MTX (and .dr) virus on my old 200 MHz comp. It screwed up so many things that I couldn't get on the Internet to find how to fix it, and at the time I couldn't mess with antivirus because I didn't have any (this was back a few years before I was on the board too; I really didn't have a lot of sense). Ate my computer up. Infected Explorer, Winsock, IE...pretty much screwed up everything on the drive. Took me a run with some Symantec thing I had in DOS mode and I had to reinstall Windows because of the infected files. ~500 viruses all told and the majority of them were in Windows or relative to it. Took 14 hours (8 AM to 10PM that night) to get rid of it all and reinstally 98. Not. Fun. Eventually, though, I reformatted the comp because I just didn't like how it was running for me after that. It was only a 6GB hard drive at the time but it eventually got to the point where I was getting CANNOT FIND OS errors. My assumption was it wasn't any virus but that the hard drive was going numb or something.
Then I could take the 286 I had, which probably only had 2 errors I can recall but they were rather fun ones dealing with when I was only a kid. One that was some MIRROR error that ended up screwing up the majority of my drive and the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files...and the second one that I found which, to this day, I'm pretty sure was the first virus I ever had...but it happened when I was messing around in MS-DOS editor and the graphics on the screen went crazy for a second and the PC speaker starts going nuts...then I got some sort of 'THE TEAM' in the center of the screen that slowly filled it's way in from pieces on the screen. Not exactly sure what this was, but eventually that 32/8 MB hard drive was formatted and repartitioned to a 40. That was when I was 9 or so and that was by myself. Course I had some help reading the stuff out of an old MS-DOS 3.3 and 5.0 book too and this was when I was half-assed messing with Q/GW-Basic and batch file creation in MS-DOS editor. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4202/8210 |
Heh, that reminds me of my old laptop. The CD and floppy drives didn't work, so I took it apart. Accidentally shorted something out. Boom. 
Interestingly, if you remove a certain component (AC adaptor board I think) and run it on batteries, it will try to start up, but I'm pretty sure the CPU's cooked so it does little more than blink the light. If you put that board in, it starts smoking, every single time. Weird... |
The Guru of Furu
Posts: 153/240 |
I used an old Windows 98 laptop that had about 1meg of freespace after i installed AIM. And I couldn't do anything about it cause it was my dad's old work comp and he wouldn't let us touch anything on it. Couple that with a terrible dial-up connection and you got load times for text pages that took over 5 minutes. Man taht computer sucked. |
KsoftFusion
Posts: 41/71 |
I found 500 spyware and 50 viruses on my grandmother's PC. It ran fast after deleting them.
I've seen a 486 with 512 kb (yes, KB) of free hard drive space. It had a 512 MB hard drive. I deleted some worthless stuff on it and have kept it at a steady 30MB free space. |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1323/1657 |
"Repairing" school computers... man it sucks. I found one that Ad-Aware found 1600 detected items, but then it just closed. I ended up using DBAN on that machine then installing Windows. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 3585/4249 |
Me + Baseball Bat + Annoying Computer = Computer Ownage, I guess. |
Tarale
Posts: 1665/2720 |
Wait, I've remembered that I DID upset my machine once. I backed up a user's data to my machine across the network before a reinstall, and as each file came through on the network, Norton killed them. My machine was nortoning for hours.  |
Ailure
Posts: 9188/11162 |
Seen antivirus program going crazy when I installed it on some company's computer for them and saw all the viruses.
Since there was no valuable data, I decided to reinstall the whole OS.
And I blame reckless filesharing. People are too gullible. |
Tarale
Posts: 1664/2720 |
My computers are fine, but when I did tech work for small business and home users, I'd find a lot of very dodgy things. I still remember a Win 95 machine so clogged with spyware that even though I was able to remove over a thousand spyware apps, there were still more that the machine was unwilling to relinquish.
I had to reformat it, and I installed Win98.
As for physical computer "ownage" -- we threw a PC off the fifth floor of a building once. Twas fun.  |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4049/8210 |
I've seen some computers at school with ~200 different spyware programs on them. Remove them and within a week they were all back. Not to mention these were supposed to have a security system that prevents anything from being installed - didn't work so well apparently.
And then there was a video of some guy getting busted cheating in some gaming place or something, they just tossed the entire computer out onto the sidewalk, it smashed into several pieces. Wish I knew where that was... |
Surlent
Posts: 817/1077 |
I'm topping you:
Zero viruses since several years, on that new machine since October 2004 also nothing new. Oh well, is it a "dick (length) comparison" about the number of viruses, how we would call that in Germany ?
I may lose that competition, but I'm rather happy to have zero viruses on that machine |
iamhiro1112
Posts: 356/487 |
Curious what is the worst condition you have ever seen your computer or other computers in.
My girl recently found 6,000 spyware on her computer. Her computer was barely runnning when she got rid of them.
I found 180 viruses on my computer. I believe that is the highest mine has been. |
