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| Foolish by Orange Devil Bat 03/19/2018, 7:21am PDT | ||||
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| That was an awfully foolish thing to do.
Many viruses are programmed to scan your hard drive for private information and send it to another location over the internet. Since you said the virus was trying to connect to other websites, it does not sound like you disconnected the machine from the internet. Any cached password in your browser and any files containing PII may be in the hands of hackers now. Additionally, these viruses can attempt to affect other machines on your local network, and some may even try to compromise your router. If you plugged your USB stick into your computer while it was infected, it may be infected now too. What would you do if that virus used your internet connection to start downloading naked pictures of kids? "It wasn't me, officer. I was just randomly installing viruses on my computer to see what would happen." That will go over great in court. There are much safer ways to do what you were attempting to do, like using a virtual machine as Ice Cream Jonsey suggested, but even when doing that people take precautions to ensure their host machines and local networks don't get compromised. |
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Examining a trojan/virus on my computer by 03/11/2018, 12:50pm PDT  Dude. by 03/11/2018, 1:20pm PDT Re: Dude. by 03/14/2018, 7:20pm PDT Imagine getting the credentials of Tdarcos by 03/11/2018, 1:21pm PDT Re: Imagine getting the credentials of Tdarcos by 03/12/2018, 6:58am PDT Foolish by 03/19/2018, 7:21am PDT Re: Foolish by 03/19/2018, 9:20am PDT Re: Foolish by 03/21/2018, 7:39am PDT Re: Foolish by 05/16/2018, 6:29pm PDT Re: Foolish (follow up) by 05/16/2018, 6:36pm PDT Turn off SMB 1.0 at least by 03/19/2018, 3:23pm PDT Nonsense. You can't get hacked if you're running Super Mario Brothers. by 03/19/2018, 9:39pm PDT |
