Only 8 viruses for 1102 songs?
That’s definitely fake
Yeah, the banner ads on MySpace alone would give you more viruses than that from a single page.
Most the XP machines I had to wipe back then probably had more lines of malware code than OS.
I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!
Personally just use foobar2000 with my music player and download my music on Bandcamp. I understand some people may find that inconvenient but supporting the artist is important to me.
Limewire, kazaa, emule/edonkey, xdcc bots, usenet… Damn the good old days.
I remember I had a Slipknot song that had a weird audio glitch you could only hear with headphones on. Like a sudden very loud sucking sound. Scared the shit outta me several times.
Those things used to circulate so much. I had a collection of computer virus that came by my computer by somebody’s floppy, downloads, etc.
Then, by 2008 I decided to look try one option in an anti-virus software that I didn’t know what it did… it erased the entire collection.
System Restore to the rescue!
That said, if you were running Linux even back then, I feel for you. I don’t think OS snapshots were a thing yet in 2008.
Hum… You think I was collecting virus in the system folders?
And Linux could do backups perfectly well back then. I just didn’t have offline backups of the virus, and the online one got erased too. Why would Linux do OS snapshots anyway? It’s not something one would need.
[Cross-eyed Bear Award]
You mistyped the lyrics 194 times.
Bear Share ftw
Limewire is still alive?
no, that’s the joke.
Why do I miss that program so much?
Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
