Viruses nowadays

As much as viruses are more common to find on a windows computer compared to like 20 years before, they are not AS destructive as the old ones. I mean the old viruses would like reformat your hard drive, delete files etc etc. Now most of the biggest viruses merely takeover your computer or try to downloading more spyware etc. I think the taking over viruses are the most common. Although there are still a couple of viruses that still do destructive work like that one virus I heard that would delete all your mp3s or rename them randomly.

Bah, viruses today are not a threat other than spamming my Internet. Back in the good old times, you could get infected without knowing. Now you have to do something really stupid, like running a trojan ("Chick with tits.cpl", "freesex.com", "wanna_cyber.txt.pif"), use Internet Explorer, get connected unfirewalled, etc.

CIH. That was fucking win for a virus. Last virus I caught. I had ran an antivirus to this CD, but the virus was pretty new and it didn't find it (it did, one week later). By running the Win32 executable it loaded. Then it would automatically infect all executables based on file operations, i.e. you didn't even have to run them! After some time it'd do REAL damage: blast your Flash BIOS if it can. Compare that to spamming, lol. And wait, here's the best part: the virus didn't increase the file size, as it split itself in many parts and overwrote padding space between objects left by the Win32 PE linker! Now that's what I call a virus. What we have today is more like luser traps. The people who gets infected shouldn't be admin in a computer, that's all.