Email-Worm.VBS.Dumb

"i'm gonna make a worm that shows you script kiddies how dumb you REALLY look." -this worm's author, probably.

[larsthedude]

I love this. A passive aggressive virus just meant to shit on script kiddies. I salute this petty coder.

[phoenixaki]

Kind of insane that I used to watch your videos as a preteen and early teenager who was fascinated with computers and viruses, and now years later I'm 27 and a computer science professor who is regularly referencing your videos to show various viruses in action that I explain in class. So glad to see you're still around!

[amyshaw]

Dan apparently has all the members of the band Supertramp as their email contacts

[_plg]

A vbs script which actually works wtf new danooct1 arc???

[WishMakers]

"Unlike other VBS worms we've looked at, this one is actually well written"
LMAO it's true

[feefre]

Quite ironic how the virus is called "dumb" yet is better made than other VBS viruses

You didnt even need to fix it!

[LeviathanRX]

I can feel the visceral hatred of the author dripping from those file extensions.

[pcsecuritychannel]

"Weighs in at only 41 lines of code" :D

[CheddarVG]

The person who made this wasn't dumb, it's a VBS script that actually worked.

[HandEGo]

Daniel,
as someone who works in cybersecurity now I'd just like to thank you for your massive contribution to the industry, even though as i believe you mentioned in another video that you studied something completely different in higher ed.. used to watch your vids when I was 14-15.. ended up cooking up a little autorun.inf worm in VB6 (LOL) and launching it on my school shortly after. boy were they pissed, they called the cops who called in the feds to track it, yes I got in some trouble... but at age 16 they left me with a slap on the wrist and community service instead of a criminal record. I can look back at it now with humor as it was over 10 years ago, but I still watch some of your older videos for the sake of novelty. Godspeed sir 👍

[Kali_Krause]

A virus that's not camera shy?
That's new 👍🏻

[NolanAlighieri]

"thanks for sticking around - I'm amazed you aren't skipping ahead" ~ closed captions, 2022

[oziaus]

The analysis of the author is the sorta commentary you can only get with someone of your interests, hobbies, and experiences.

Kinda epic dude 😎.

[ToTheGAMES]

I remember running Windows 2000 while everyone was running ME or 98 still. I loved W2K.

[malwaretestingfan]

It's coded too decently for it's name, must be that unwritten rule that malwares need to be called as unflatteringly as possible from the part of AVers.

[strangeyoutuberman]

The psychopath even used indents and spaces around the equal signs. This was truly a master of vbs worms who like you said was offended by the type who just edited the love letter worm

[hehe-k]

i love when you sort of self deprecate in the captions about filming the parts in between the video where the computer has to load, and all you see and hear is the sounds of hdd spinning and windows doing its thing, honestly? id have an entire hour to 10 hour loop of that in the backround going during my day because its very relaxing and nostalgic. I adore the original xbox for this reason, its LOUD clicky harddrive sounds so alien and brutal which is why i'll never swap mine out for a new one.

[BlackMageDark]

Lol I saw that caption Dan, no self-respecting danooct1 fan EVER skips through the seek test, let alone the video!

[lunakittyyy]

happy birthday dan! your videos are one of the reasons i got into technology as my hobby and i cant thank you enough for the effort over the years

[HeadsetGuy]

This is the funniest worm I've ever seen. I love it.