"Well, there's lot of possible ways that your laptop could have been infected with this virus, and without doing an extensive analysis on your system, it's hard to say..."
That's just me bullshitting you. You have a teenage son? He's looking at porn and he's not very good at it.
He's looking at porn and he's not very good at it.
This! I swear to god... I didn't even run an anti-virus for several years and never caught anything. How people catch stuff with an active anti-virus running blows my mind.
This was a few years back, but I swear it's 100% true. In this one case, I actually was able to identify the source of the virus - pretty easily. It was a file downloaded through a torrent client named:
I'm still not quite sure if the user thought that they were downloading a picture or a video, but either way, I'm quite sure that if that particular "leak" had somehow happened, you wouldn't have to find out about it through some shady torrent site...
"Well, there's lot of possible ways that your laptop could have been infected with this virus, and without doing an extensive analysis on your system, it's hard to say..."
That's just me bullshitting you. You have a teenage son? He's looking at porn and he's not very good at it.
I've used this line so many times that it doesn't even feel like a lie anymore.
This! I swear to god... I didn't even run an anti-virus for several years and never caught anything. How people catch stuff with an active anti-virus running blows my mind.
This was a few years back, but I swear it's 100% true. In this one case, I actually was able to identify the source of the virus - pretty easily. It was a file downloaded through a torrent client named:
BritneySpearsAngelinaJolieDoubleHeadedDildo.jpg.avi.mpg.bmp.exe
I'm still not quite sure if the user thought that they were downloading a picture or a video, but either way, I'm quite sure that if that particular "leak" had somehow happened, you wouldn't have to find out about it through some shady torrent site...
It's self-extracting zip of...a bmp screenshot of a video?... Yeah, that's all I got :D