I wish I got bonzi buddy instead of a virus that copy pasted itself into multiple directories on Win 98se, restoring itself whenever a copy got deleted. That was quite the challenge for 9 year old me to clean the family PC before mom got home from work. Limewire gets all the hate but most of mine came from Real Player! Little me thought Real Player software was legit because of their video codec I always saw anime rips using. No. Nope.
We all learn from our mistakes, that’s why people who previously pirates make an easy guide
lol I remember copying game shortcuts on desktop on my flash drive thinking I’ll get the game at home
My computer class teacher did the opposite
He claimed that you can delete all the big exe files, as they are not needed as just take up space
He’d love demonstrate it on the school computer, but it didn’t boot right now, “for some reason”
He was not a good CS teacher
lmfao, I wonder if the school even check the teacher’s background
I think he meant the installer files, not the actual
.exethat launched the game, but who knowsyeah, I think he heard the shortcut thing somewhere and completely misunderstood it.
tbf, this is now 25 years ago, so computers were still quite a novelty in regular schools, let alone have teachers that know about them. I think he was just a math teacher before
Thanks for reminding me, I did that on a floppy disk once and was so proud at first…
Thats how you learn I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bonzibuddy would be a welcome change from all this ai bullshit that’s getting thrown at us.
Bonzibuddy was classified as malware for collecting user information and using deceptive ads. I never used it myself but I’d bet it’s downright tame compared to the shit considered normal business practice nowadays.
