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Back then it was pretty easy. If you weren't actively loading a webpage or playing a game, there wouldn't be any network traffic. This was back before the day
by com2kid 5y ago
Back then it was pretty easy.
If you weren't actively loading a webpage or playing a game, there wouldn't be any network traffic.
This was back before the days of auto updates or telemetry!
So basically if I was doing something locally, and I saw the lights blink on my hub, and my (tiny!) process list didn't have any obvious suspects, I knew something was up.
Malware wasn't nearly as well hidden back then, so uncovering it wasn't all that hard.
- southerntofu 5y agoI fondly remember that period indeed. But reading your comment i realized it's been a while since i could tell whether my computer having network activity was suspicious or not, and i'm guessing a lot of younger people don't even realize that could be a thing. > Malware wasn't nearly as well hidden back then, so uncovering it wasn't all that hard. Yeah catpicture.jpg.exe was definitely easier to identify than modern viruses are.