[ Retro Scan of the Week ] Mad: Computer Virus Edition
May 12th, 2014 by Benj Edwards
His missing tooth is a hanging chad
I found this in my old collection of Mad magazines. In 1991, computer viruses were relatively novel — although I did lose all of my early BBS data to a malicious virus just one year later (see the story in that link).
Discussion Topic of the Week: Have you ever had a computer virus that wiped some or all of your data?
May 13th, 2014 at 1:02 pm
I’ve never had any sort of malware that has ever wiped anything, but I have had a couple of failing hard drives that have done that very thing. I’d imagine it’s probably just as frustrating to deal with as it is dealing with any malware doing the same thing.
May 13th, 2014 at 2:19 pm
I got a virus once. In order to get rid of the virus I had to completely wipe my hard drive and reload everything. Unfortunately I forgot to back some items up and lost some things in the process.
May 14th, 2014 at 11:48 am
Sircam got me in 2001, had to reformat the drive. Luckily I had copies on floppies of everything important.