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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A random EXE that does exactly as it says? That was rare even during the frontier fort days of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I look back to how many "fake virus" exes I used to download and wonder how I never actually got one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried sending on a fake virus I coded myself in pascal to a teacher I hated in 2000. I don't know if she opened it, but she did get demoted from head of science.