Do Old Viruses Work on Modern PCs? | Nostalgia Nerd

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[Boba]

short answer: no
long answer: well, if the user wants it bad enough

[squabbbb]

Behold! The power of backwards compatibility & legacy support!

[CancunMimosa]

I think the best part of this video was that i can sleep safe at night knowing there is a malware museum

[twilightverdict]

This PC was just born into the nightmarish existence of endless torture and stack overflows :(

[acidzebra]

I work at [undisclosed large global company]. We recently had problems with an ancient excel macro virus spreading. How/why? It was so old that our [very modern, hip, cloud-based malware detection suite] didn't even register it. So yeah, definitely.

[jaimerosariojusticia]

So Windows can still run old DOS viruses, but when I try to run old DOS games it stops them.

[IneptOrange]

I'm imagining a scenario in which someone accidentally lets loose a computer virus from 1989 on 2040s' computers and it bricks the entire internet or something entirely by accident lmao

[zband]

I remember an old virus called Color Bugger. It was more of an annoying program that hid in your system but it would change all of the colors of your system to some seriously *eye searing* colors. After you spent time putting all of your colors back to what they were it would do the same thing again when your system rebooted.

[YaBoiThomas]

13:46 Unplugs Ethernet Cable
13:52 Wifi still connected: *I'm* *going* *to* *end* *this* *mans* *whole* *career*

[aetch]

It didn't matter if they were viruses or not, it was never going to end well trying to run 7, 000 of any program.

[myMotoring]

U remember in the movie Independents Day they infected the alien's super advanced computer with virus from a 1995 laptop?

[VraccasVII]

I love how random some of these seem. Deleting your cmos, but only in the month of May? What the hell

[opfax]

In 15 years : " Do Old Viruses work on my neuralink brain chip "

[LohTec]

Kinda like old chess programs defeating newer ones because the techniques are not anticipated.

[xEARTH]

for the record, the reason why windows and context menus were being weird at the end there was because windows has a "redraw" function it calls to update your screen etc. for window movement yadda yadda, essentially... well, redrawing the desktop every time a window action (like minimizing, moving, maximizing, restoring, and so on) is done. the problem is that redraw needs a specific amount of memory available to it, and if it doesn't have access to that memory, it just... fails to redraw. at all.

[johnsherby]

That code that puts your entire drive on a game of cards is so dank

[TheWolvesCurse]

viruses in DOS times: medium inconvenience,
vandalism

viruses from win2000 onwards: empty bankaccounts, stolen personal info, hacked social media accounts, eastern european robbers breaking into your house

[ChozoSR]

I don't miss those days _at all!_ At least, from a "I just wanna use my computer" standpoint. I spent almost a week and a half getting a Windows98 retro gaming rig working. A big part of it was finding drivers for everything. It was a _nightmare._

[drewfullhart]

i heard "at 370 pounds' and said audibly, "wow thats really heavy for a PC"

[rogofos]

honestly the biggest surprise I had was that your CPU is loaded by 100%
meaning they managed to fully load each and every one of your cores

tho thats probably the power shell having some fancy multithreading, rather than viruses themselves