[convivialdingo]

Super old… my first experience with a “virus” was an Amiga boot sector attack from 1986!

At the time the morris worm had inspired some folks to see if they could spread binaries by infecting every disk inserted. That’s all it did….. spread. I think the virus lives off an interrupt generated by disk insertions.

Fortunately it was harmless (except for a few extra crashes) and I had my original OS disks that could be booted from to clean up the disks.

[edanm]

Just in case anyone isn't aware of this history - the "Morris worm" being referred to here is named after Robert Morris who wrote it. He's also one of the co-founders of YC, which built HN.