These days not only would it open your CD drive, it would open your tax documents, your crypto wallet, your account cookies, probably even your banking information.

The modern internet fucking sucks dude.

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 66 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Put the rose tinted glasses to one side. We still had harmful viruses back in the day, difference is these days you are storing more private information "online" so the effect of compromise is larger.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 19 points 2 months ago

Back then, there were still lots of "wipers" that deleted files and/or destroyed the OS. Now it's all spyware and ransomware.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i'm mostly just sad that the funny side of malicious software is gone.

There's no more funny malware. It's all ransomware and stealers.

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's no more funny malware.

That depends who gets infected.

You or me infected by malware? No thanks!

Egon Mark infected by malware? Absolute hilarity!

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

i mean yeah, but that's only situationally funny.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Vandalism became theft and kidnapping

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh don't worry, malicious .exe files were all over the forums back then.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

u aren't wrong.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sub7 existed before 2000 if I'm not mistaken.

[–] redbr64@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was just about to comment that this reminded me of the sub7 days. Not sure when it was released, but I definitely used it in 1998

Edit, memory was wrong, it was released in February 1999