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| Riku Posts: 1721/1823 |
That... disturbed me, and raised my heartrate. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4191/5072 |
Indeed, a nerdy B-Movie. Attack Of The Spyware! Just when you thought it was safe to plug in your network cable... |
| Someguy Posts: 121/124 |
That movie scares the hell out of me, it's like a PC horror film. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4154/5072 |
Originally posted by Peardian
I hope by it you mean he. |
| Peardian Posts: 1631/1757 |
There's a guy in Banjo-Kazooie named Goggles. Anyway, back on topic...
 Well, now I know to be extra careful while typing Google. I'd hate for all those viruses/spyware to get into my computer. I can't afford to lose my information. 
The most I've seen on one computer was ~50 viruses/spyware, since he isn't the smartest person in the world (he thought the original Final Fantasy was for PlayStation and thinks Ocarina of Time was a bad game), has weird tastes, and most importantly, no anti-virus/spyware blocker. It died. |
| TehBlackSharpie Posts: 70/76 |
Originally posted by EvilMushroom How does it remind you of Banjo Kazooie? ...am I missing something here?  |
| SantaMushroom Posts: 180/245 |
Goggle scares me. It also reminds me of Banjo Kazooie >.> I'm not taking any chances, even if they've caught it :p |
| Tarale Posts: 2409/2713 |
Ah, good ole Goggle.
I blocked it back a few years ago when I was working in a school, because students would often go there (accidentally or on purpose, I was never sure). Blocking that and a few ad sites stopped a lot of spyware and other nasties.  |
| xpCynic Posts: 166/208 |
I tried it in VMWare too (SP1 just for fun) and it gave me some popups and gave a link to some survey. Strangely enough there's a timer that says a special offer is about to expire, but when it hits 0 the site just reloads. Cheap advertising tactic I guess...
Next I'm gonna see if archive.org has the old computer-killing version of the site...muahahaha. Edit: Well, I tried it, and it still isn't much. Most of the time it would just link to SpyBouncer or some other bogus antispyware, or it would have an under construction page. It gave me a few more popups though, each time there would be this weird one with an IP address instead of a URL. Nothing particularly dangerous-looking, so they definitely over-exaggerated a little. |
| Xkeeper Posts: 4651/5653 |
Originally posted by HyperHacker It wasn't exaggerated, as I've seen the same problem crop up (though not on that website) I have the stereotypical idiot teenage sister who runs anything she downloads. It's not hard (fuck, there was a virus in C:\ last I checked) |
| DarkSlaya Posts: 848/936 |
Originally posted by HyperHacker Yeah. I remember when I was TEH N00B at the internet, I made that typo pretty often. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4088/5072 |
Ages ago I saw someone make that typo, and they just got a page about goggles.  Anyway that video was pretty awesome, though obviously exaggerated. I'm guessing that computer already had some problems. |
| Cynthia Posts: 5236/5814 |
Probably nothing too interesting on it right now.
Shiryu: ANY virus that stealth-installs from a website is bad news unless it can't execute its payload for some strange reason. |
| BooUrns Posts: 108/450 |
I've heard the site was taken down and replaced with what is there now, so no more malware (at least, not as much). Pity, I was looking forward to watching Win98 explode . |
| Milly Posts: 102/145 |
Let's see, I'll try it again in VMWare but on my Windows 98 setup (with Internet Explorer 5) instead of XP ...
... Nope, nothing, either it's only for XP or there's really nothing interesting there now, and it's not too likely that someone would run Internet Explorer 5 on Windows XP when version 6 is just as old |
| Shiryu Posts: 258/275 |
Becouse It won't happen if using IE6 or the last firefoxes. try it with IE <5 (with 4 it sure happens) and a crappy firewall, and say that again.
(But you still get some viruses, not too important ones... but whatever.) |
| NintendoFB Posts: 170/190 |
Tried it, nothing happened... I was looking forward to my computer spazzing out  |
| BooUrns Posts: 105/450 |
I did get infected with that SpySheriff program and tons of other junk not too long ago (but not through Goggle). It also ruined my system restore points and I ended up reformatting my hard drive because it was running so slowly  . Maybe I should get a Mac... |
| Sonicandfails Posts: 746/917 |
No, it used to do this. This was a real site, cause a friend tried to show me it awhile back and my virus protection went bananas. Also, a quick google search and you see that it did indeed happen to people. It has since been closed up though, but when it was around it supposedly hit alot of people... |
| Ailure Posts: 2117/2602 |
Originally posted by Alastor the StylishSame here... apart from the fact that it redirected to a site (in a rather tame way) that told me that I'm a legible US resident. Like I wanted to go to hell.
Gotta love alternate browsers... I don't dare trying that with IE. |
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