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To be fair, if you left your work unsaved before going to dodgy-looking links, this'd teach you a couple of valuable lessons without totaling your computer.
I don't get this "unsaved paper" complaints because office 2000, office xp, office 2003 and later all periodically autosave and they will let you recover most, if not all of your work. There are many other things that could happen to your computer, it could crash or there could be a power outage. They thought about the computer forcefully shutting down long before this. In fact I believe office 97 already autosaved. I literally had someone turn off power as a prank and I was pissed but when than win 98 and office booted up again it was all back, in fact it opened with my paper already loaded because there wasn't the "check these unsaved files" sidebar yet.
You were in elementary school. Clearly you just thought it would be funny. Tbh, one of my classmates did this as well. The teacher wasn't impressed, and for some reason didn't understand that shutting off the computer fixed the problem.
Oh man, never thought I'd hear that anxiety inducing song again- it's only a slightly higher pitch than my brain's very vivid memory of it 😅 I was probably 10 or 11 on addictinggames and mis-clicked on one of the unavoidable ads and my heart leapt out of my chest, i was so scared. After a minute of heart-racing panicking I force shut down, waited an hour and then was trembling in fear as I turned the computer back on. Man the relief I felt when nothing happened and I was in the clear- my dad is a tech guy and I don't think that was the first time I'd had to come to him in shame to fix the pop-ups I accidentally clicked on lol. Scared me straight, there was only one other time a couple years later when a rogue trackpad again misclicked on a banner ad on MySpace causing a ton of pop-ups. Other than that I was so careful to not go anywhere near banner ads for fear of accidentally clicking them 😅😅
i know how you feel with that when i was younger i clicked on a side add by accident and got my computer locked and i was scared shitless because it kept saying it was a microsoft virus protector and my dumbass believed it
Wait it literally plays the song? I remember having some type of anxiety or panic attack the couple times I had encountered malware. It’s really terrifying
@@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 yes indeed! but u cant deny it works for I think reasonable emotional harm for an education that will otherwise be overlooked, trust me some of my colleagues still click on unknown/untrusted links that the company keeps reminding them not to do on company computers! 😅
I feel he/she/they would be more satisfied with just knowing people like you or me are incredibly interested in going to this site, even though we know we will be called an idiot.
The origin of the audio comes from the 1984 album Put It Where The Moon Don’t Shine by Rick Dees, a DJ from Memphis, best known for his song “Disco Duck”. It plays during the track “Candid Phone (Dog’s Funeral)”. Lost media found.
No one else thinks it's actually creepy as hell? The music is weirdly distorted, the voice sounds inhuman and the faces on the black background are staring into your soul.
Honestly, I never found it scary or creepy. It's just too interesting to find scary for me. If I heard this at the middle of the night though, I'd shit myself
One time me and my friend were playing games and in one of them he got a boombox and played you are an idiot and I pissed my pants bc I hated it, plus I was alone in my living room so yea
nah, the music is "distorted" or rather in low bitrate, because that two frame animation was made in Flash, where downsampling audio was common at the time because it drastically reduced the filesize
the remixes are dope. the “you are an idiot” virus would make terrify me dude. like what the fuck. the overwhelming distortion while those faces flashing black and white and the other tabs swirling violently around is fucking creepy
As far as mid 2000's trolls go this was the most vanilla. Atleast it wasn't a party of lemons, a girl in a tub, a spinning of meat or a goat that can see.
After it stopped being a virus site I set it as my sisters startup page on her chromebook, I still remember the look of horror on her face after she open up her laptop to see that.
Computer viruses are so terrifying. The feeling of dread, and irreversible damage, and blaming yourself. Your heart just sinks. The ones that open a bunch of programs and slow down your computer in particular are just crazy.
@@Yep6803 The idiot one is because somebody got bored and think it will be funny if somebody clicks a link and the progress in the computer gets removed insantly
@@ts-z3r which is great except that since MS isn't developing security patches anymore, there's plenty of old malware that will work on it. so if you wanna develop your own patches then yeah you'll be safe
Apparently they "Patched" the thing in this video, haha, in this video it says that alt + f4 didn't work, the one they sent me to try it out was alt + f4 stoppable and I remember it vividly, by clicking one of the windows borders and just holding the keys, the program would close all of its window before it replicated. Seems like even the one who did it could send out a much better fool proof version of it. Or maybe because the computer I was on ages ago was so shitty it took ages to even open a single window, not even the malicious program could react at the computer crappiness for me to close it down. Yeah I think it was that 100%
Ahhhhh, I've been wondering about this virus for at least 3 years, i just heven't searched it up until now, you explained it all really well! I now know that that is NOT the place to go.
The tune itself is clever. When there is just one playing, there's already a slight chorus/echo effect to it. Once you get a bunch of them going at once, it doesn't change the sound all that much. It just gets slightly more echoey and a LOT louder. This trojan horse was a masterpiece. It didn't mess with anything, it didn't try to steal your data, it just became an easy version of the Rickroll. Anything you lost was your own faukt for clicking on a scetchy link before hitting save.
when i was little this gave me nightmares. for a while i literally couldn't sleep unless my mom was in the room and i could never explain why i was so scared cause she wouldn't understand that it was all because of a stupid flash animation (which was already neutralized by this time)
It was a really really great idea of the person who created this masterpiece. It teaches the user to be reaaaally attentive when browsing and not doing anything stupid because of the fear of viruses while being completely harmless itself.
2012 - haha you have a harmless inconvenient virus 2024 - this computer is now mine and now I have your address social security number government files criminal record license plate children wife family and I will soon have taken your identity
@@JK-gm6kk ok then what if you spent 400 dollars on your PC (around 650ish today) and then your PC breaks 400 dollars gone all your work gone your entire tech GONE see why it's terrifying?
I know I'm an idiot, I don't need a website to tell me! _"And you should always believe everything I say, because I know everything"_ is a highlight lol, amazing video :)
@@nationsquid There is So Many Errors That is More Vicious Than Your Are An Idiot Error Like _#BSOD__ Blue Screen Of Death_ -Or- *#BonziBuddy** A Microsoft Gorilla Virus*
Ah I remember this as a kid. However, at the time my PC acted up because I was always trying to run games and software too big for it, so I had a surge protector next to my tower on the floor that I would switch on and off with my foot to restart the PC. Not the smartest thing to do, but I was only 11. Needless to say, this thing startled me enough to instinctively flip the surge protector, then run an antivirus after restarting
I love how this virus doesn’t even seem threatening, it just mocks you for even downloading it. And I mean… are they wrong? It’s even more obvious that it doesn’t even wipe your hardrive or do anything actually threatening that will immediately shut down your computer. It just mocks you, they only make the computer unusable by use of blocking you from clicking anything.
Honestly this virus is terrifying. Feels like something out of a horror movie with some evil AI invading your computer. Edit: By saying it’s terrifying, I meant the concept itself: not the actual virus because of how mostly harmless it is.
@@SunDroid_inc Doctors will put you on IV drip if your skin is dehydrated enough to stand when you pinch the back of your hand. It should go down right away, otherwise you're clinically dehydrated.
I'm 29 and It was terrifying as a child. When it happened, I was home alone and frozen stiff for prob 30 mins. I distinctly remember turning on the TV to calm myself down, and the music video of Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park was playing on Much Music. I associate that song to this virus and forever have it as a core memory lmao. I was terrified of the computer for years.
@@carlonpetersen171 I know that auto save didn't really exist at that time. But what I'm saying is that if you were working with auto save enabled, and you ran this. You wouldn't feel like an idiot for not saving your work.
Haven't heard of this since Vargskelethor talked about it in one of his Windows Destruction streams. I think it was the Windows 7 one? I loved hearing his story about the kid that launched it on a school computer.
This is such a blast from the past, I used to love pranking people with it at school. One of the best was a friend who had Neopets bookmarked on her PC in IT class and used to get away with going on it all the time because the teacher couldn't see her screen. That's until we went on there and changed the bookmark link. Absolutely creased.
My favorite from the '90s was Elvis Watcher. It would install, add a toolbar button that was like a small alert, and did nothing after. But, if Elvis Presley appeared in your 'hood it would alert you. At least, it was claimed.
Hearing about how it would multiply and multiply, even when you kept closing the windows, makes me think of it as a sort of modern day hydra? Which makes for a fun mental image at least lol
and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire
16:06 Growing up in this time and having myself or watching friends come across different viruses.....that sound of your computer locking up will always freak me out! I don't know why it did, but hearing it again after all these years brought those fears right back! Maybe it was from the "Oh shit I accidentally infected the computer and now my dad is going to kill me" realization lol
You know what? If it didn't do any damage to the computer and literally just scared you for a while before leaving, then it's kinda cool that it likely taught a lot of people to be wary of random links
Just discovered this channel. I love this kind of stuff. The late 90s, early 2000s was such fascinating time for the internet, not only because I was just a kid and it's nostalgic to me, but also because of how unregulated the online world was. It was like the Wild West. You never knew what you would find. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your next video. :)
I remember one of my friends telling me to visit it, and at first I was skeptical but they convinced me. After it started, I spent the next 30 minutes crying and hyperventilating because I thought I had gotten my moms computer hacked. I was like 4 or 5.
I remember falling for this virus back in the late 2000s - early 2010s when I was still a child, trying to pirate games as we couldn't really buy them or such. But, I think It was a different variant of it. It did have the same message, but if I'm correct, a Rick Roll showed up afterwards. Lesson learned.
As kids, my sister and I watched a lot of UA-cam and wanted to create content ourselves. We downloaded a software, tried making more than one video, but my sister deleted it because it was telling her to turn off virus protection. I’m glad my sister was smart and knew to delete the software.
in 2004 (when I was 10) an AOL kids chatroom moderator sent me this virus, because I was being an annoying little brat online. They also blocked our internet connection and my mum had to call up AOL, and they snitched on me😅I was so embarrassed.
@@thermaltools Virtual machine is basically a computer inside a computer, if you know how you can simulate mobile emulators in computer, just like that you can run a virtual machine to have a computer inside a computer, it's mostly used to test viruses
dude I swear people who aren't in the IT field and use virtual machines as a word to defeat any virus is funny as hell... they act like there aren't ways to infect your host machine from VMs as well
I remember the internet being full of these kinds of viruses, and you had to basically firewall everything. This was the time that the internet was in its rawest form before regulation set in. I spent my entire adolescence and preteens on the infancy of the internet we know now. Kids today literally havent got the slightest clue.
The internet still has plenty of viruses and malware like this even now. It's just that your browser will tell you it might be malware. And people nowadays don't just click random links anymore.
The reason it didn't work on 2000 was probably because it got as bad as it did before you took action. Had you spawned as many windows in XP as were in the 2000 example, I bet it would've struggled as well. You basically nipped it in the bud early on there. Also didn't know you could multi select programs in task manager for mass close.
If I had this on my pc when I was little I would probably cry and panic because I'm sensitive to loud sounds. I clicked on this because it looked interesting
So called "screamer" websites/programs of the turn of the millennium taught me to lower the volume and make the window very small before doing anything I don't know the outcome of. THE HARD WAY.
Fun fact- there is a variation of this trojan, that features pictures from lemon party.... And now imagine how much chaos that caused when one of my friends in school decided to load the lemon party version, on a school pc, during a class.... Funnily enough this lemon party version also had a feature where it said "its useless" and then counted down from 10 to 0 every time you try to close it, and on 0 it just shuts down the pc.
I remember being on a phone with one girl long years ago. She was very mean, but I loved her and as I was calling with her, I suddenly heard this sound "You are an idiot" coming probably from the speakers connected to her computer. At first I was confused, then I thought it was her way of telling me what she thinks of me. I never really knew that sound was a sound of a virus and now that I know it, it all kinda starts to make sense. I guess it was karma.
Kinda glad i found this. I remember seeing this on our home computer when i was around 6 years old. I distinctly remembered the sound, but wondered if i just imagined it, so it's nice in terms of memory validation. What i don't remember is the multiplication of the windows. I remember getting rid of it, or rather my mother getting rid of it, without forcibly shutting down the computer, it's possible that we had gotten a friendlier version of it that wasn't intended to cause actual harm. Ofc, i was 6-ish at the time, so i just kinda thought it was funny and memorized the audio. Just kind of a wierd memory now.
I remember it being a .wav sound bite on a Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory server i once played on.. Got stuck in my head since so many people kept spamming it to annoy the server lmao... 2006 was wild!
I feel horrible for laughing so hard when I heard the description of what this actually did, since this legitimately messed up people’s computers, but it’s just so chaotic and wild. Someone definitely made this just to screw with people. It’s kind of horribly beautiful in a way. Definitely a relic from a different time.
thank you for providing the flashing light warning. it helped me so that I knew to turn on my lights so the contrast wouldn’t cause a seizure. I really appreciate that because I enjoy your content.
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This website is still up as an archived website, but it's just the animation and sound nowadays. Better not go visit it just in case though :p Edit: oops he says this at the end of the video.
I rememberwhen I was a really little kid, I found the website on accident, and ended up going back onto it cause I thought it was funny. I'd do it over and over and just didn't mind turning it off and back over and over again.
@@t-pos Are bullies not allowed to be girls? Oh yeah, they're not allowed to be non-binary or genderfluid or any gender other than boys, right? (This is clearly sarcasm and a joke, I'm completely supportive of LGBTQ+, don't attack me.)
Can we just appreciate how this guy even wrote the site’s address with (dot) instead of the symbol in the description? That is some real good thinking, I love it! Imagine people scrolling description down and ending on that site, just because they truly were stupid enough to click that link
That moment when you are in your early thirties and you remember when this webpage first came into existence, and it was used primarily as a teaching tool in 6th grade computer courses about viruses. Back then it was just a funny gag that went away after you forced the computer to shut down.
This is the version someone sent me in a chat room in the early 2000s it was a pretty good lesson on not clicking links and luckily was gone after a reset.
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why do I feel like i’ve seen this video before
@@jbbajangamer I don't know. Mandela Effect perhaps? 👀
16:06 sounds like a microwave...
4:03 Rick astley at work.
I miss when viruses were basically just to prank you, and not to involve your PC in organized crime.
I guess I'm a criminal now...
Me too. Back when the worst viruses were just stuff like a dancing stick figure that opens files
Especially that one desktop stripper
@@hlscientist8760 uhm what was the name of this virus?...
Especially when you are very proficient of using visual basic program, it is so easy to prank your friends who doesn't know about techs.
To be fair, if you left your work unsaved before going to dodgy-looking links, this'd teach you a couple of valuable lessons without totaling your computer.
So to say to keep your work open and go *you would be a idiot*
@@riponrip4574 well it sounds alot cooler to say if it causes damage by you not closing your work then your an idiot
Exactly
Yeah, I always press Ctrl s like ten times after I add a single thing to the file
I don't get this "unsaved paper" complaints because office 2000, office xp, office 2003 and later all periodically autosave and they will let you recover most, if not all of your work. There are many other things that could happen to your computer, it could crash or there could be a power outage. They thought about the computer forcefully shutting down long before this. In fact I believe office 97 already autosaved. I literally had someone turn off power as a prank and I was pissed but when than win 98 and office booted up again it was all back, in fact it opened with my paper already loaded because there wasn't the "check these unsaved files" sidebar yet.
Pulled this on a school computer back in elementary. I forget why I did it but I got lunch detention for a week
You were in elementary school. Clearly you just thought it would be funny.
Tbh, one of my classmates did this as well. The teacher wasn't impressed, and for some reason didn't understand that shutting off the computer fixed the problem.
LMAO
Hey, I remember you! Joel talked about you on a Windows Destruction stream!
chad
well now i wanna do it on my friends school laptop
Oh man, never thought I'd hear that anxiety inducing song again- it's only a slightly higher pitch than my brain's very vivid memory of it 😅 I was probably 10 or 11 on addictinggames and mis-clicked on one of the unavoidable ads and my heart leapt out of my chest, i was so scared. After a minute of heart-racing panicking I force shut down, waited an hour and then was trembling in fear as I turned the computer back on. Man the relief I felt when nothing happened and I was in the clear- my dad is a tech guy and I don't think that was the first time I'd had to come to him in shame to fix the pop-ups I accidentally clicked on lol. Scared me straight, there was only one other time a couple years later when a rogue trackpad again misclicked on a banner ad on MySpace causing a ton of pop-ups. Other than that I was so careful to not go anywhere near banner ads for fear of accidentally clicking them 😅😅
i know how you feel with that when i was younger i clicked on a side add by accident and got my computer locked and i was scared shitless because it kept saying it was a microsoft virus protector and my dumbass believed it
Sorry I'm too lazy to read all those 😅
holy yappathon
Wait it literally plays the song? I remember having some type of anxiety or panic attack the couple times I had encountered malware. It’s really terrifying
@spiidercider @fathiralvaro7590 both of yall are braindead
The guy who created this is a genius, singlehandedly taught a whole generation to not click an unknown file/link! xD
Well, With all the computer viruses that came after this one that only worked by clicking an unknown file/link...
Then that's a horrible way to teach someone
@@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 yes indeed! but u cant deny it works for I think reasonable emotional harm for an education that will otherwise be overlooked, trust me some of my colleagues still click on unknown/untrusted links that the company keeps reminding them not to do on company computers! 😅
Rick roll taught me that
@@derenbong agreed
Now I'm curious where Farmers Insurance got their inspiration for their jingle.
Some CEO in an office: *click
Computer: "You are an idiot!"
CEO: I'll show you!
@@kip258 lmao
We are farmers...
Bud um pum bum
Aw shit
just imagine the creator, simply sitting and smiling at home, being the only one that knows that he is behind the 'virus'
I feel he/she/they would be more satisfied with just knowing people like you or me are incredibly interested in going to this site, even though we know we will be called an idiot.
@@stephenheffren4324 JUST SAY THEY OMG
@🍷 Zachary ;; Yeah, ik, but they is a much much simpler way to put it though. it saves time and is less hard to read
@@sad-with-pizzazz Yeah you do have a good point lol. Sorry about that.
lmao
The origin of the audio comes from the 1984 album Put It Where The Moon Don’t Shine by Rick Dees, a DJ from Memphis, best known for his song “Disco Duck”. It plays during the track “Candid Phone (Dog’s Funeral)”. Lost media found.
It originates from WLiR
@@codyryan9789 Uh, no, it didn’t.
Yeah, I first heard it on the telephone in 1994.
THANK YOU!!! I was so curious
No one else thinks it's actually creepy as hell? The music is weirdly distorted, the voice sounds inhuman and the faces on the black background are staring into your soul.
the audio freaking creeps me out lol
Honestly, I never found it scary or creepy. It's just too interesting to find scary for me. If I heard this at the middle of the night though, I'd shit myself
One time me and my friend were playing games and in one of them he got a boombox and played you are an idiot and I pissed my pants bc I hated it, plus I was alone in my living room so yea
I like it, there's a cool remix of it that I listen to on loop lol
nah, the music is "distorted" or rather in low bitrate, because that two frame animation was made in Flash, where downsampling audio was common at the time because it drastically reduced the filesize
I love how a literal prank script caused so much panic.
dummy
Do you know what website it’s on
People with epilepsy: 👁️👄👁️ ----- 👄 ----
@@Kweentoos their fault for clicking on the site.
@@rattleheadsofroblox1201 I mean yeah,it is their fault
The "you are an idiot" song gives me the creeps. It's quite disturbing and surprisingly eerie. But I have heard good remixes soo.
the remixes are dope. the “you are an idiot” virus would make terrify me dude. like what the fuck. the overwhelming distortion while those faces flashing black and white and the other tabs swirling violently around is fucking creepy
@@billcyphers3rdeye yeah, I once came close to seeing it as a kid. I went on the website but closed it by accident lol
I would be anxious if I accidentally opened it
@@falseillusin9197 You got lucky
same
I just know that a certain flower would love this
I know that flower. On a personal level.
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@@runningoven is that a GASTER REFERENXE YFMEJEHGJRJY
As far as mid 2000's trolls go this was the most vanilla. Atleast it wasn't a party of lemons, a girl in a tub, a spinning of meat or a goat that can see.
Oh no please don't mention the goat or he'll come back!
Meat spin made me gay
meatspin
we didn't start the fire line 1: meatspin, goatse, lemon party, tubgirl
this comment wins. If you know all of em you know em
Osu players be like: “it’s my time to shine”
Underrated lmao
lmaoo
Mhm
Yes sirrrrrr
It's a mouse only player's wet dream.
After it stopped being a virus site I set it as my sisters startup page on her chromebook, I still remember the look of horror on her face after she open up her laptop to see that.
we do a little trolling
BAHA THATS SO EVIL
Ooooo00O000oooo
can i ask how do i do that lol. i want a startup page but i never figured out how
@@user-ow4fx8zf5e do you have google
2:00 omg scared me so much, the faint smile
i got scared so much lol
OML HELP
Computer viruses are so terrifying. The feeling of dread, and irreversible damage, and blaming yourself. Your heart just sinks. The ones that open a bunch of programs and slow down your computer in particular are just crazy.
i think 20 years of prison isnt enuff
@@Yep6803 literally there was probably people who had epilepsy and were effected by the flashing lights :/
@@NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY but in general what was the purpouse? 1) no spyware 2)?
hate this feeling, even a recurring theme in nightmares for me lol
@@Yep6803 The idiot one is because somebody got bored and think it will be funny if somebody clicks a link and the progress in the computer gets removed insantly
"You're safer using XP" that's a rarely spoken phrase.
that's because XP is usually the old one in the comparison
@@LilacMonarch I was thinking about back then lol
i mean…. Like nobody is making XP viruses anymore i think sooooooo
@@ts-z3r Okay Shaggy you get a Scooby snack
@@ts-z3r which is great except that since MS isn't developing security patches anymore, there's plenty of old malware that will work on it. so if you wanna develop your own patches then yeah you'll be safe
I "defeat" it back then by holding alt + f4 and closing all of them faster than it could replicate lol.
Gave it the middle finger. Good times.
Apparently they "Patched" the thing in this video, haha, in this video it says that alt + f4 didn't work, the one they sent me to try it out was alt + f4 stoppable and I remember it vividly, by clicking one of the windows borders and just holding the keys, the program would close all of its window before it replicated.
Seems like even the one who did it could send out a much better fool proof version of it.
Or maybe because the computer I was on ages ago was so shitty it took ages to even open a single window, not even the malicious program could react at the computer crappiness for me to close it down.
Yeah I think it was that 100%
@Cameron Lattz but you can't escape memz
The one i got at the time alt+f4 didn't worked.
I put an “emergency reset” button on my pc when I was younger. I just used that.
@@Halal_Gaming What? You mean you just pushed the restart button all PCs have? Or you had some hardware to magically re-initialize the OS?
Ahhhhh, I've been wondering about this virus for at least 3 years, i just heven't searched it up until now, you explained it all really well! I now know that that is NOT the place to go.
The tune itself is clever. When there is just one playing, there's already a slight chorus/echo effect to it. Once you get a bunch of them going at once, it doesn't change the sound all that much. It just gets slightly more echoey and a LOT louder.
This trojan horse was a masterpiece. It didn't mess with anything, it didn't try to steal your data, it just became an easy version of the Rickroll. Anything you lost was your own faukt for clicking on a scetchy link before hitting save.
Fault*
Lol but yea
Your Abuelo Pedro and I *f a u k t*
Maybe a music theorist must speak about You are an Idiot someday!!
Faukt and Scetcy-
This is literally terrifying, the faces are so simple but so menacing and the jingle is so creepy and distorted
i'm worried about what kind of nightmares your brain creates for you when you go to sleep at night
@@Cyanide_Infused xD
how the fuck is this terrifying
fr
when i was little this gave me nightmares. for a while i literally couldn't sleep unless my mom was in the room and i could never explain why i was so scared cause she wouldn't understand that it was all because of a stupid flash animation (which was already neutralized by this time)
"Don't do this. It's a virus."
"Huh. I wanna see." _(Does it.)_
*"YOU ARE AN IDIOT!" ☻☻☻*
"Yeah, that's fair. I deserve that."
Epic
Did you get it off? Lol
As a adhd person i have to say its really tempting to do it
@@KITTYINK416 I did it lmao. It worked but It went away lol
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It was a really really great idea of the person who created this masterpiece. It teaches the user to be reaaaally attentive when browsing and not doing anything stupid because of the fear of viruses while being completely harmless itself.
Some people had to get a new computer it's not harmless
16:40
2012 - This virus does no harm to your computer.
2022 - This virus is more dangerous than you think that it is.
how, send me link
@@Vulturul333dfd-originalgood luck with no computer
@@Vulturul333dfd-originalbro is trying to get us reported 💀
@@erwinguzman8878 so win10 well die
2012 - haha you have a harmless inconvenient virus
2024 - this computer is now mine and now I have your address social security number government files criminal record license plate children wife family and I will soon have taken your identity
i feel bad for people who had epilepsy and discovered this virus
That's fair. So many people here saying it's LiTeRaLlY tErRiFyInG, for some reason.
@@JK-gm6kk you'd be scared if it happened to you, without you knowing what it was.
I'm glad me as a kid didn't find that then lmao
@@JK-gm6kk ok then what if you spent 400 dollars on your PC (around 650ish today) and then your PC breaks 400 dollars gone all your work gone your entire tech GONE see why it's terrifying?
@@biccnesse dang bro im sorry about that
Perfect timing, I JUST got nostalgic for this faint memory and looked it up.
Here before the algorithm blesses it well beyond 100k.
Same
oh hello sato
Here after the algorithm blesses it with 100k
This is like being on the Oregon Trail and seeing a trail marker from the brave trailblazers that forged my path.
3.1 million now, wow
I freaking love these internet documentaries, keep it up man
I know I'm an idiot, I don't need a website to tell me!
_"And you should always believe everything I say, because I know everything"_ is a highlight lol, amazing video :)
Thank you so much for your support! More content to come! :)
Dude second reply on _your_ comment, just 5 likes? 😹
@@nationsquid Bro give one reply to me 😭😭😭
I have watched almost all your video
@@nationsquid There is So Many Errors That is More Vicious Than Your Are An Idiot Error Like _#BSOD__ Blue Screen Of Death_ -Or- *#BonziBuddy** A Microsoft Gorilla Virus*
@@NotKaito Here's my reply. ;)
I wasn't alive in 2002 but I would be scared *shitless* if this happened on my computer
i’d be scared shitless even now in 2021 Lol
I was 2 and wouldn't be using the internet in that sort of fashion but if I had seen it I would have cried
Yeah, but now a days this would just be the visible symptom of an actual virus stealing your data. So, you would need to panic. Lol
Same
666 likes
5 minute study video: 🥱🥱
18 minute video on a computer virus that was back in 2004: 👍
Yep
569 likes ...
Yep
@@scottdamann2327 745 likes ...
@@Pilgrammed in 3 hours?!
Nobody I talk to remembers this but it's burnt in my memory forever and the songs still pops in my head every other day
Offiz: multiplies insanely fast
Osu players: *Im boutta end this mans whole career*
even filthy weebs at the time couldn't combat it, and weebs were one of the deadliest people to talk trash to on the internet back then!
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c still are
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Bro it's just a rhythm game, not a weeb game and true weebs are the deadliest people ngl 😔🍷
@@jaderitz a skinny weaboo decided to make 4chan and look at what happended, a whole meme culture grew.
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Is that good or bad or both?
Ah I remember this as a kid. However, at the time my PC acted up because I was always trying to run games and software too big for it, so I had a surge protector next to my tower on the floor that I would switch on and off with my foot to restart the PC. Not the smartest thing to do, but I was only 11. Needless to say, this thing startled me enough to instinctively flip the surge protector, then run an antivirus after restarting
Yeah, this is big brain time
I did that every time I came across a site that scared me
Gargantous brain time
You just saved your computer by being an idiot from the you are an idiot site lmao
@@BG_NC same
An ad really just interrupted this guy talking about adult websites and desperate internet users by yelling the phrase “NERDS!”
nerd wallet?
@@Commrade-DOGE that’s the one.
Nerds
Unintentional Nerd Wallet W
I love how this virus doesn’t even seem threatening, it just mocks you for even downloading it. And I mean… are they wrong? It’s even more obvious that it doesn’t even wipe your hardrive or do anything actually threatening that will immediately shut down your computer. It just mocks you, they only make the computer unusable by use of blocking you from clicking anything.
Offiz: I fear no man but that thing **points to a osu player**
Offiz: It scares me
lol i'm a osu! player since feb 2021
I love your pfp
nice tf2 reference lol
bro, imagine having an texture pack for windows and make it make your red X become an hitcircle
LMFAOAOAOO
Honestly this virus is terrifying. Feels like something out of a horror movie with some evil AI invading your computer.
Edit: By saying it’s terrifying, I meant the concept itself: not the actual virus because of how mostly harmless it is.
Frr
I was 7 or 8 when i first saw it and if i hadnt previously watched all of the halloween movies that were out, i would want to cry.
Yeah, evil AI that says "you are an idiot"
If u think this virus is scary then oh boy you’re in for a rude awakening one day
@@sholomoone Well we were different breed, Good old happy tree friends is animation series we all watched xD
"And now everything seems to be back to normal." 1:44
No, nothing's normal! Why is Windows XP in 1080p?? That's AWESOME in 2004!
LMAO
690th like
there were CRTs capable of more than 1080p in 2004
YAGUS HASKAMASSOON ALLAWOSSOS
the song literally sends chills down my spine, i have no idea why. i could be the repetition, or the voice that doubtless is not human.
I think if I'd encountered this back in the day I would have just cried for hours.
Me too. Except I’m severely dehydrated, so I wouldn’t have any water left in my body to cry out.
@@SunDroid_incwell I hope you drank something....
@@RemoWilliams1227 I try
@@SunDroid_inc Doctors will put you on IV drip if your skin is dehydrated enough to stand when you pinch the back of your hand. It should go down right away, otherwise you're clinically dehydrated.
I'm 29 and It was terrifying as a child. When it happened, I was home alone and frozen stiff for prob 30 mins. I distinctly remember turning on the TV to calm myself down, and the music video of Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park was playing on Much Music. I associate that song to this virus and forever have it as a core memory lmao. I was terrified of the computer for years.
This is why you should enable auto save. So that if you run this while working, then you wouldn't be an idiot. 🤷🏻♂️
Auto save wasn’t quite a thing yet.
@@FennecTECH well you know what I mean
Not really tho, what do you mean? It truly didn't exist yet so...
@@carlonpetersen171 I know that auto save didn't really exist at that time. But what I'm saying is that if you were working with auto save enabled, and you ran this. You wouldn't feel like an idiot for not saving your work.
@@carlonpetersen171Main stream auto save wasn't a thing, but many of us had our own auto saving scripts or programs we wrote for ourselves.
Haven't heard of this since Vargskelethor talked about it in one of his Windows Destruction streams. I think it was the Windows 7 one? I loved hearing his story about the kid that launched it on a school computer.
*E* *X* *P* *A* *N* *D*
*D* *O* *N* *G*
Uncle fecal funny Jobel.
Trashman, i eat gArBagE
Yes I watched it and it was so fecal funny hahahaha
And then I went home and ate chicken nuggets
I miss when viruses were basically just to prank you, now they make my boot sector unalive
The virus: scary to unknowing people, and those that get their devices destroyed.
The animation meme remix: absolute jam
yeah
True
True guys!
Fr tho
Fr
virus: literally destroys thousands of computers
animators: hey hey, let's use this sound to create a funny lil animation meme trend lol
FACTS
yep
and i was vibing when i heard the original song (from here)
frrrr I saw the animations and was vibing in my room until this and now it creeps me the f outt
@@chad6461 me too X[
damn they probably even made edgy cats bleed from their eyes to this song or something lul
Fun Fact : That script from Flowey from Undertale which is "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" is kinda referenced with the same activation of the YouAreAnIdiot Trojan
oh fr?
ong?
Frfr ong?
ong fr fr?
Ong ong ong Fr?
my bretheren, we must rise again. come forth and fulfil our destiny.
💀💀💀💀💀💀
SHIIIIIIIII
Ha-h-ha-h-ha-ha, ha-h-h-h-ha-ha…
The legendary choir that recorded this 5 second clip of art is out there still, embracing the fact that they ARE one of the oldest internet memes ever
Thats epic
I wonder how they feel about being a huge internet meme
That's awesome! They know they're part of internet history, and openly embrace it.
@Joseph same
Me: *reads the flashing light warning* "Oh okay cool."
Me, 15 seconds later: "OH FUCK FLASHING LIGHTS-"
By Talos this can't be happening
mark as unread in real life
Literally same 😩
So, in other words...
LMAO
This is such a blast from the past, I used to love pranking people with it at school. One of the best was a friend who had Neopets bookmarked on her PC in IT class and used to get away with going on it all the time because the teacher couldn't see her screen. That's until we went on there and changed the bookmark link. Absolutely creased.
This post here officer
what a villain lmao
that was the start of your villain arc
that is evil af
Omg hello
0:55 OH GOD- ITS LIKE THE HYDRA-
My favorite from the '90s was Elvis Watcher. It would install, add a toolbar button that was like a small alert, and did nothing after. But, if Elvis Presley appeared in your 'hood it would alert you. At least, it was claimed.
Hearing about how it would multiply and multiply, even when you kept closing the windows, makes me think of it as a sort of modern day hydra? Which makes for a fun mental image at least lol
and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire
Imagine that Hydra in the legend of Hercules. Imagine how obnoxious that would have been for the guy.
@@hisokaswaifu5343 They're talking about the mythological hydra, which would grow two more heads for every one that you destroy.
that's why it has 3 heads
YouAreAnIdiot: *has a whole history and legend about itself *
Me : *casually has this audio/remix of it in my playlist without even knowing it *
LMFAO I LOVE THE SONG
Me too like I didn’t know it had such a history, damn
Unironically based tbh
Got the link?
@@vibe_swizzy here ya go
ua-cam.com/video/hiRacdl02w4/v-deo.html
Oh my gosh! Memory unlocked. As a 2000s teen chat room user, they got me so many times. 😂😂😂
For some reason, it scares me. The sound is weird and when more windows pop up, it jumpscares me. At least the creator taught them something.
I agree, I don’t know why, computer viruses scare me tho
100th like, friend! Also love your pfp
so scary, i feel like i'm going to get jumpscared at any second
I agree. Those windows scare me due to that loud hearing
same bro, the song is just unsettling for me
this scares me. the first part was so stressful- I know it’s harmless but if this happened to me I would’ve had an anxiety attack 😭
Same, that was really scary :(
Same idk why it scared me so much
Same
i literally got an enxity attack like 😟
@@ansun1987 ikr? its literally so creepy to me.
16:06 Growing up in this time and having myself or watching friends come across different viruses.....that sound of your computer locking up will always freak me out! I don't know why it did, but hearing it again after all these years brought those fears right back! Maybe it was from the "Oh shit I accidentally infected the computer and now my dad is going to kill me" realization lol
@Clexplosion that wasnt your ipad saying that it was definitely an ad pretending to be an ipad notification
@Clexplosion yup, those aren’t sending you to virus blockers, they’re sending you to pages that will actually give you a virus
@Clexplosion It could be a virus disguising itself as a virus blocker. Many viruses disguise themselves as an anti virus.
@Clexplosion WELL THE VIRUS BLOCKER PROBALY WASNT A BLOCKER IT WAS PROBS JUST A ACTUAL VIRUS
@Clexplosion nah bro its a ad ive gotten lots of those asking to install their apps many else got those
You know what? If it didn't do any damage to the computer and literally just scared you for a while before leaving, then it's kinda cool that it likely taught a lot of people to be wary of random links
Just discovered this channel. I love this kind of stuff. The late 90s, early 2000s was such fascinating time for the internet, not only because I was just a kid and it's nostalgic to me, but also because of how unregulated the online world was. It was like the Wild West. You never knew what you would find.
Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your next video. :)
I had a windows xp during the late and early 2000s on my dads old pc this channel bring some nostalgia
I love your videos relating to viruses/malware. They're very interesting to watch and learn about! I hope you can make some more like this :))
Thank you so much! More content to come! :)
@@nationsquid cool 🙂
@Falcon X probably, but if you get it seriously you can just reformat the whole computer
I remember one of my friends telling me to visit it, and at first I was skeptical but they convinced me. After it started, I spent the next 30 minutes crying and hyperventilating because I thought I had gotten my moms computer hacked. I was like 4 or 5.
oh wow-
that’s rough
Dude your friend is a monster
you were using a computer at age 4-5???
@@cactusskeet I had a phone at 5 😭
This was my first NationSquid vid I watched and I never stopped watching it
I remember falling for this virus back in the late 2000s - early 2010s when I was still a child, trying to pirate games as we couldn't really buy them or such. But, I think It was a different variant of it. It did have the same message, but if I'm correct, a Rick Roll showed up afterwards. Lesson learned.
Wahoo that’s just wow.
Wow lol
As kids, my sister and I watched a lot of UA-cam and wanted to create content ourselves. We downloaded a software, tried making more than one video, but my sister deleted it because it was telling her to turn off virus protection. I’m glad my sister was smart and knew to delete the software.
When he said “you really are an idiot” it gave me flowey vibes
same
"Howdy! I'm Flowey, Flowey the flower" :D
yes
Flower:I'ma make pepole cry and delete their files with a virus.
I heard that Toby fox based his voice off of it in other UA-cam comments, I haven’t checked though
in 2004 (when I was 10) an AOL kids chatroom moderator sent me this virus, because I was being an annoying little brat online. They also blocked our internet connection and my mum had to call up AOL, and they snitched on me😅I was so embarrassed.
NationSquad: *DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME.*
Virtual Machine: _Allow me to introduce myself._
Virtual machine..?
@@thermaltools Virtual machine is basically a computer inside a computer, if you know how you can simulate mobile emulators in computer, just like that you can run a virtual machine to have a computer inside a computer, it's mostly used to test viruses
@@thermaltools a computer inside a computer
@@thermaltools basically a virtual/digital computer inside a computer
dude I swear people who aren't in the IT field and use virtual machines as a word to defeat any virus is funny as hell... they act like there aren't ways to infect your host machine from VMs as well
I remember the internet being full of these kinds of viruses, and you had to basically firewall everything. This was the time that the internet was in its rawest form before regulation set in. I spent my entire adolescence and preteens on the infancy of the internet we know now. Kids today literally havent got the slightest clue.
@yippee yip and are you a bratty little 10 year old? 💀
The internet still has plenty of viruses and malware like this even now. It's just that your browser will tell you it might be malware. And people nowadays don't just click random links anymore.
I remember having at least three virus protectors, in addition to some other firewalls. It was the wild west, but damn, was it fun.
"kids thesw days literally don't know" Okay, yeah so? You gotta trumpet the fact you had it harder?
@MariaDreamed 这很酷 :3 stfu
The reason it didn't work on 2000 was probably because it got as bad as it did before you took action. Had you spawned as many windows in XP as were in the 2000 example, I bet it would've struggled as well. You basically nipped it in the bud early on there.
Also didn't know you could multi select programs in task manager for mass close.
I mean, I don't think W2000 had group shutdowns in its taskmanager 😅
@@YurlynPlays yeah, but I'd used both 2k and XP at one point. Though if you kill the process instead of ending task...
Control-Alt-Delete all at the same time. Anything freezing up or won't close out will be forced closed. My favorite 3 keyboard buttons
"you REALLY are an idiot"
*Flowey liked that*
Reminds me of this video: ua-cam.com/video/wewiWDm8icE/v-deo.html
Imagen instead of closing the game after dafeating asgore it would also open this up but with a flowey sprite.
finally a reference that i understand
yes
also nice pfp
@@CaptJCB_ lol
If I had this on my pc when I was little I would probably cry and panic because I'm sensitive to loud sounds. I clicked on this because it looked interesting
Sameeee I would prob run away from the computer skdjddj
Nice furby profile pic c:
@@purrpletiger2159 thank you
I have spd because of my autism so 😖
So called "screamer" websites/programs of the turn of the millennium taught me to lower the volume and make the window very small before doing anything I don't know the outcome of. THE HARD WAY.
I cant imagine how freaked out i would be if something like this wouldve happened to me when i was younger.
16:06 something about audio freezing is more terrifying to me than the loud off-rhythm choir bullying me LOL
Can't believe that they made a prank virus that caused thousands(hundreds maybe) of people to panic into a catchy song lmao
Fun fact- there is a variation of this trojan, that features pictures from lemon party.... And now imagine how much chaos that caused when one of my friends in school decided to load the lemon party version, on a school pc, during a class.... Funnily enough this lemon party version also had a feature where it said "its useless" and then counted down from 10 to 0 every time you try to close it, and on 0 it just shuts down the pc.
fun fact- my dog digs up catshit and eats it
@idk Stop trying to speak for other people you ego-maniac
"You can barely move the mouse its so slow"
School computers: first time?
Probably was one of the scariest things to encounter as a kid.
I remember getting nightmares about this when i was a kid. Good times.
Same
“good times” WTF?
To be fair it sounds f’in S C A R Y
@@thekingofdoms they're being sarcastic, they don't actually mean they had a good time
Same but that is right now and I haven’t had any nightmares yet but I think about it before bed…
I remember being on a phone with one girl long years ago. She was very mean, but I loved her and as I was calling with her, I suddenly heard this sound "You are an idiot" coming probably from the speakers connected to her computer. At first I was confused, then I thought it was her way of telling me what she thinks of me. I never really knew that sound was a sound of a virus and now that I know it, it all kinda starts to make sense. I guess it was karma.
Kinda glad i found this. I remember seeing this on our home computer when i was around 6 years old. I distinctly remembered the sound, but wondered if i just imagined it, so it's nice in terms of memory validation. What i don't remember is the multiplication of the windows. I remember getting rid of it, or rather my mother getting rid of it, without forcibly shutting down the computer, it's possible that we had gotten a friendlier version of it that wasn't intended to cause actual harm. Ofc, i was 6-ish at the time, so i just kinda thought it was funny and memorized the audio. Just kind of a wierd memory now.
I remember it being a .wav sound bite on a Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory server i once played on.. Got stuck in my head since so many people kept spamming it to annoy the server lmao... 2006 was wild!
17:13 The fact when he closed it at first we thought it was gone but then they suddenly appear back. I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂
I feel horrible for laughing so hard when I heard the description of what this actually did, since this legitimately messed up people’s computers, but it’s just so chaotic and wild. Someone definitely made this just to screw with people. It’s kind of horribly beautiful in a way. Definitely a relic from a different time.
Yea
Yes and it would be like heck if I was in 2002 abd cry and just be like why did I do this and flip it
at the time computerd did this to themselves every couple of hours anyway. if you hadnt saved you really were an idiot
yeah!
@@mycosys yes lol
thank you for providing the flashing light warning. it helped me so that I knew to turn on my lights so the contrast wouldn’t cause a seizure. I really appreciate that because I enjoy your content.
“You really are an idiot”
-Flowey the Flower
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@@keterpatrol7527 First it’s undertale second it’s deltarune
@@kikiscosmos4781 r/wooooosh
*omega form is basically a bunch of Windows XP windows*
"Its funny how dumb you are!"
-Bill Cipher -2014 I think.
"Sir.. we got a virus from our computer"
"THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO.."
This website is still up as an archived website, but it's just the animation and sound nowadays. Better not go visit it just in case though :p
Edit: oops he says this at the end of the video.
i went to it now im scared
@@unkown2343 why
take a wild guess as to why Unknown would say that. Not like it’s obvious or anything
going to the og site still has the script to do its gag, browsers just block the popups
I got one pop up and it actually bounced around the screen I was so scared
It's nice to know people are still making videos about past traumatic events in the beginning of the internet. Makes it feel more relatable to me
„Traumatic“ ?idk lol I wasn’t alive in 2002
is it weird that I want to run a safe version of this to test how good my new pc is
Nah...?
Can't you just run 3dmark?
What do you think virtual machines are for?
I mean... don't ???
Yes
Things like these always get me so hooked on learning more-
I rememberwhen I was a really little kid, I found the website on accident, and ended up going back onto it cause I thought it was funny. I'd do it over and over and just didn't mind turning it off and back over and over again.
Your past self needs therapy
Edit: geez how did this get 102
Likes
the truest form of a fvcking devil.
I would do that because of the music
Me too
e
I did that to my old school bully, she cried and i was quietly laughing and the teacher got super mad! I am happy. That is what made her stop. : )
Oh yeah this is big brain time
How tf did you not get in trouble?
A.. _she..?_
@@t-pos Are bullies not allowed to be girls? Oh yeah, they're not allowed to be non-binary or genderfluid or any gender other than boys, right?
(This is clearly sarcasm and a joke, I'm completely supportive of LGBTQ+, don't attack me.)
@@livmoved yes ik but its just so rare for me to encounter girl bullies lol
I have 2 mixes based off this sorta "jingle" and they're both bangers for '06-'07
do you have them saved?
i think this is one: m.ua-cam.com/video/hiRacdl02w4/v-deo.html
@@ultimgaming2281 exactly the one
I like that he never forgotten to remain calm despite how annoying that Trojan virus is.
Can we just appreciate how this guy even wrote the site’s address with (dot) instead of the symbol in the description? That is some real good thinking, I love it! Imagine people scrolling description down and ending on that site, just because they truly were stupid enough to click that link
☻☻☻
🌚🌚🌚
Most people would probably end there of their own will ;)
Does the website really still exist and damage your computer? I find it unlikely.
Nah it still multiplies windows if you click on it but it's easily destroyed by going into Task Manager.
That moment when you are in your early thirties and you remember when this webpage first came into existence, and it was used primarily as a teaching tool in 6th grade computer courses about viruses. Back then it was just a funny gag that went away after you forced the computer to shut down.
This is the version someone sent me in a chat room in the early 2000s it was a pretty good lesson on not clicking links and luckily was gone after a reset.
I remember the mad pranks we'd pull on each other in high school I.T class. We thought we were so hilarious...
We weren't.