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Check Out These Vintage Computer Viruses at the Malware Museum
Getting a computer virus these days is a very different experience than it was during the 1980s and ‘90s. Today, malware operators are stealthy, writing programs that will lurk silently in your computer, waiting for the opportunity to steal your credit card information or hold personal data hostage in exchange for an exorbitant fee. But during the early decades of the internet, virus creators more often aimed to destroy every computer their programs infected.
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Heh, I remember some of these.