Whats the worst you\'ve had and how did you get them???
Me and my friend got one, I\'m not sure what it was but there was like a countdown, and your computer would shutoff after a minute. It was quite scary but we pulled through, with a lot of mountain dew.

The worst virus would have been the kind that would force me to reformat.

...and I\'ve never gotten a such virus, but there was one crappy virus that completely destroyed my father\'s computer\'s hard drive. (Was slowly corrupting it over time. >_<)

Well let me tell you all about it, I\'m not sure how I got it...but one day my computer was acting up really badly, so I decided to restart it. But that was my big mistake, once I restarted everything started like normal except when I got to the point that my desktop should have shown up it took me to the screen that I have to chose the user even though I am the only user. I was a bit confused but I chose my use and then it went to my desktop for a split second then back to the chose user screen, it did that every time I tried to log on no matter how many time I restarted. I had to use the XP boot discs you know the 7 floppies then go to reg edit and do all kinds of scary thing that I was kind of unsure about, but I got it working again and have not had that problem since so I must have done something right!

[Edited on 8-6-2005 by J_Hibiki]

I\'ve never gotten a virus on the net, but have you heard of the Virus that locks up your computer and asks you to send $200 through PayPal to get the access code? Scary stuff...

There was a Met virus in my comp at one point...I just showed it the Oekaki, and it ran away in tears.:lol:

I dunno...we had some REALLY bad spyware for a while. I got forced online like two seconds after bootup, and there would be like 19 popups from the gitgo. Most of them where for wierd shuff, like Vitamin C supplements...the others where unhealty all together.

Then I got Spybot.

I had a spyware bundle once called LOP
It had like 4 tool bars and one MASSIVE one. I was too paranoid to do ANYTHING with it...
I got rid of it buy going to the company\'s site, kind of ironic.

Actually, ELBURITO, I think that\'s just what they want you to do. I\'ve had to do similar things before to get rid of those toolbars. Even normal uninstallation often requires you to go to the company\'s site to get rid of the thing. It\'s pretty annoying.

Yes it is, I didn\'t trust the site but I haven\'t had any problems with spyware/viruses afterwards.

I my firefox

While I have not had any single, particularly severe virus, one of my family\'s computers seems to find itself under a constant deluge of relatively minor or moderate viruses. They cause the computer to be considerably slower than would be desired and bring other viruses in.

haha first time my dad put spybot and adware on my computer.... once it was loaded on, he started to run it..... i had over 2000 virus\'s and it was still going and that was just spybot. pathetically, as the spybot was finding all of my virus\'s, the computer fried. my dad had to take it into his work to get it fixed. reality, they basically gave me a new computer. They took out the hard drive, and only god knows how many other things and just replaced them. but man, over 2000 virus\'s i hate spyware

[Edited on 10-6-2005 by ShadowOfAWolf]

Ugh... Adware. It made all these annoying pop-ups appear and almost every time I closed one it\'d kick me off the internet. Shortly after it started to make this strange munching sound, that wouldn\'t stop even if you closed everything! Then, CDroms and stuff like that stopped working, and strange things started appearing on my desktop! Then internet and certain other programs stopped working... Then I couldn\'t even get the computer to work! I thought I lost all I had on the computer, but thankfully my cousin\'s dad fixed it with parts of his old computer (and virus-removal programs), and it was all saved. (An experience I would hate to relive!)
Now I despise viruses! (It\'d be so cool to have a navi. )

on my pc is a very enoying virus (don\'t know the name) that deleted my desktop and menu start

No but it\'s just as annoying.

I was just hit by a really horrible virus which totally decimated my PC and made it crappy, slow, iresponsive, etc. I was just about ready to do...*gulp* reformating... *Hears a shriek* But luckily, my dad installed the newest version of Zone Alarms and it totally killed the virus. That was a very relieving day, by far.

[Edited on 16-6-2005 by Megaman Masta]

One time, I had some SEVERE slowdowns during one of those outbreaks that makes it on the news. I was up til midnight updating Norton Antivirus. About a month later, I did a full reinstall. When I got around to installing Norton, my active programs bar on the taskbar was gone. After that, I switched to Norton Internet Security, which didnt eat my taskbar. (I use AVG now, since its free and updates more quickly and efficiently)

About two years ago, I had just switched to a new Athlon 1800+ comp and had all my files from my P2 set in my new XP install. One afternoon, XP failed to boot. The bios did not recognize any OS on the harddrive. I had to reinstall and I lost several years of crap I had accumulated.

About 8 months ago, my laptop decided to have a REALLY corrupted harddrive, just as I got to class. It got to the point when Windows was loading, then spit out a screen full of different colored lines. Looked like a pair of clown pants, or bad wallpaper. That evening, after letting it sit for a few hours, it worked fine. I missed a lot of notes in class and barely got my homework done. That was my 16th birthday, by the way :madgo:

About a month before that, my laptop did the same thing as my desktop did with the lost OS. Had to get it re-networked for school and have tons of software reinstalled for my classes.

I hate Microsoft and have been trying for years to get away from their horrible OS. My dream is to be able to move to Linux and still have a way to run all my Windows apps without dual-booting. Sadly, this is currently impossible. If we all used Linux, the world would be a much better place.

I actually got a pretty bad one on my other comp last night. I\'m not completely sure what is was called but I think...Bloodhound.