Which was the worst computer virus you have ever gotten?

[Pepsei]

byte bandit virus, for the Amiga 500.... it was nasty because it infects the boot epprom.

 

[Rebasxer]

I got one of the worms that scan for windows vulnerablities, the one that was after the blaster worm or something. It caused your computer to shut down or something if you didnt turn off some function of windows. It was easily removed but annoying for a few days when I couldn't figure out what was going on.

 

[Spydermag68]

Cookie Monster...An old macro virus for word that would populate a page with an image of the Cookie Monster and ask for a cookie. Y/N

Y - you went back to your document
n - good-bye document and save file.

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

On computers I have used, my work computer many years ago was by far the worst one. It was the Michelangelo Virus.

From http://www.cert-rs.tche.br/docs/michelangelo.html

Simply put Michelangelo will destroy exactly 8,912,896 bytes on your hard disk, overwriting them with NUL bytes. Once it strikes, THOSE bytes are lost and gone forever. BUT. . . . ., all the rest is undisturbed. Precisely (and technically), Michelangelo will overwrite the first 17 sectors on the first 4 heads of the first 256 cylinder on your hard disk. Of course, that will wipe out your partition table, the Boot Sector and the first 16 sector of FAT1 in your first partition (for most that will read 'Drive "C"'), and make you think your hard drive has failed (can we spell 'CRASHED', boys and girls?). but most of your data will survive, although it may take the skills of the data recovery specialist to get it back.

 

[five40]

ATOT

 

[Night201]

Never been infected.