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The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

34 points by Mclhuman 11y ago

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
For those interested, danooct1 is a YouTube channel devoted exclusively to running old PC viruses, particularly ones that have a novelty and art aspect to them, as was common before. EDIT: Bleh, I'm an idiot for not noticing "Daniel White" was linked to him in this article.
- Mclhuman 11y ago
  Damn straight, it's an amazing channel.
api 11y ago
Confession: I wrote a couple of these when I was a teenager, including one that would give you a crazy color scheme and print 'Your PC is on an acid trip' as a DOS error. I put one on a high school PC once and it ended up actually spreading around. They were pranks and weren't designed to really hurt anything, though I'm sure they could be annoying. It's how I learned assembly language and C actually.
- godgod 11y ago
  Knock Knock.
lelandbatey 11y ago
I notice that all the raw mp4 files are being shared from Dropbox. Since Dropbox can cut off download links for high traffic files, here are mirrors for each video: Ambulance Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/ambulance_virus.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/ambulance_virus.mp4 Friday the 13th Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Jerusalem-correct.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Jerusalem-correct.m... Disk Killer Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/DiskKiller.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/DiskKiller.mp4 Stoned Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/pcstoned.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/pcstoned.mp4 Data Crime Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Datacrime.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Datacrime.mp4 Ping-pong Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/PingPong2-correct.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/PingPong2-correct.m... Falling Letters Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/TextCascade%20(1).mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/TextCascade%20(1).m...

34 points by Mclhuman 11y ago

For those interested, danooct1 is a YouTube channel devoted exclusively to running old PC viruses, particularly ones that have a novelty and art aspect to them, as was common before. EDIT: Bleh, I'm an idiot for not noticing "Daniel White" was linked to him in this article.

Mclhuman 11y ago
Damn straight, it's an amazing channel.

api 11y ago

Confession: I wrote a couple of these when I was a teenager, including one that would give you a crazy color scheme and print 'Your PC is on an acid trip' as a DOS error. I put one on a high school PC once and it ended up actually spreading around. They were pranks and weren't designed to really hurt anything, though I'm sure they could be annoying. It's how I learned assembly language and C actually.

godgod 11y ago
Knock Knock.

lelandbatey 11y ago

I notice that all the raw mp4 files are being shared from Dropbox. Since Dropbox can cut off download links for high traffic files, here are mirrors for each video: Ambulance Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/ambulance_virus.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/ambulance_virus.mp4 Friday the 13th Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Jerusalem-correct.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Jerusalem-correct.m... Disk Killer Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/DiskKiller.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/DiskKiller.mp4 Stoned Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/pcstoned.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/pcstoned.mp4 Data Crime Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Datacrime.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Datacrime.mp4 Ping-pong Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/PingPong2-correct.mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/PingPong2-correct.m... Falling Letters Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/TextCascade%20(1).mp4 http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/TextCascade%20(1).m...