Retro-Viral Reviews - Virus Terminator (Cosmi Software, 1992)
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2024
- the first of (hopefully many) AV and other misc. ancient software demonstrations and battles against computer viruses of their time. let me know what you think!
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"The box is a little beat up which happens after 30+ years." My guy. I didn't come here to be attacked like this.
bro never gives up after 13 years , what a legend 🎉🎉
Some heros don't ware cape... but they do use DOS ;P
13? It's literally 15!
@@BroadcastingMyselfAtUA-cam 17*
When applicable, you should try testing them against more modern viruses. That would be very interesting
That’s literally what I just commented 😂
They won’t detect most of them…
imagine a modern virus writer being funny and rendering the virus nonactive on ancient machines with just a textfile of them talking about their dog
@drowningin I was thinking more along the lines of viruses that still fit the theme of the channel, but testing them on AV's that claim to have some sort of pattern recognition or something interesting like that.
Agreed.
Michelangelo & Joshi co-existing is actually insane.
Michelangelo and Joshi coexisting is yaoi.
Joshi’s competing!
Dano - as someone who discovered your videos as a kid - seeing you return is like seeing a familiar friend. Was actually just showing my buddy your old videos + 8bit stuff the other day - Welcome Back, King.
He is one of the first youtubers I've ever watched a video from and I've been watching ever since, I can't believe it's been around 12 years since then. Also if you read this Dan, I really enjoy the in depth review videos like this and can't wait to see what you have planned for future videos!
Dad got Dr Solomon for free from his work including updates, and that was how we discovered that our PC was infected with CIH. So we managed to remove it several months before its payload 😄
Nice! I wish I'd been that lucky. I got my family computer destroyed by CIH, along with half the computers in the school's "learning labs", all from an infected copy of Nethack from an infected mirror site. But they never tracked it to me, and I kept my mouth shut, heh.
I love how instead of editing out the meowing, you just edited in a picture. Perfection.
Memes melt my brain, after reading this comment I was like "what, mewing? in such a video?"
Leo made an appearance! \o/
EDIT: Not knowing what will happen makes it more interesting IMO. So it's okay if you don't test before shooting, specially because we can also see your reaction in real time. And yeah, it was really fun with this format!
Great video! I loved Leo’s little cameo 🥺🥺🥺 himb baby
7:28 they really got a typo right there on the credits section first page "Micrsoft"
As a zoomer, I still found this very interesting. I love when old (and new) software is reviewed. Please make more :)
Hey you kid get off my lawn!
nah he got the lawn pass this time@@JohnSmith-xq1pz
I remember you talking about making this series in that memorabilia video from a bit ago.
I hope you continue with this series, there's some crazy anti-viruses out there.
I’m looking forward to the series. And the guest appearance of Leo. 🐈
im probably not the oldest follower around, but i am still someone who lights up with excitement when you upload. Please please make this a feature. You spent years showcasing viruses, now we can showcase how the public tried to combat them-hopefully for a few more years!
Great idea. Would love to see PC Cillin on this. I have a faint memory of that being the first antivirus I ever saw on a Windows 95/98 system. That's where my fascination with AVs began. :)
Been watching for years now. This is more exciting to me than it should be hahaha
46 minutes! We have been blessed. Thanks so much
PLEASE do more of these. This is such a fun series idea, and seeing multiple viruses cooperate like this is INSANELY cool
Finally the Virus Terminator! Been waiting for it since the Magold video
Lol, now I'm imagining you're gonna forget that the Windows 98 disk has Joshi on it and you're just gonna install Windows 98 with a side of Joshi 🤣
Great video, keep it up man. You're one of my biggest inspirations and sources for learning cybersecurity.
I remember this from the Win95 anniversary vid. Glad to finally see a video on this!
This is a fantastic first start for this series...I have to tell you...and love the cover! The interesting thing about the title, in that era, "terminator" was a fine name. Nowadays? Anything called "terminator" would probably scream rogue scanner. Much more relatively peaceful times, all things considered.
no way i was just wondering if you still had this after rewatching the magold video you're a legend dan
Weird to think I've been watching this channel for 10 years now. Been looking forward to this new series and it was worth the wait.
I’m really glad to finally see you do this! Been watching since 2013 and I will want to see more like this.
I've been excited for this series since you first mentioned it, I'm happy it's finally here! I especially appreciate how in-depth you were.
Personally if I were you, after demonstrating the antivirus programs, I would make an image of the installation media and put it on the Internet Archive, and maybe put a link to the archive page in the description. I think things like this need to be preserved, but that's just me.
preservation is indeed the end goal for all of these videos, so many of these I've never heard of and can find next to no information on them with Google searches.
Love your uploads, thank you for continuing to do so
Mother of god I'm so in love with this new segment about old antiviruses. This channel is my OBSESSION
I really appreciate the detail put into the captions. Can't wait for more reviews!
This was INCREDIBLE. By far, one of your best videos.
Honestly, good on ya for proceeding on with the idea
I can't wait to see where the series will go
Cool, cant wait for more of the series!
Club penguin is so nostalgic
this was incredibly fun to watch! definitely keep going with this idea and see what other crazy things may happen :D
I have been waiting for this since it was teased in your Magold video. Excellent video, I'm excited to see more content like this
I really enjoyed this, I’m excited to see what you look at next!
That Vienna buzzing would scare the absolute crap outta me if I saw it when I was young
I love how it tries to look serious with a gun, but what's on the cover is a .22LR target pistol, which isn't really used for, well, terminating lol
Great content as always, Dan!
Another drop from the greatest of all time.. very excited for the series
Oooh! Yay! This video finally dropped! Been wanting you doing this since you teased it! I'm writing this at the start but looking forward to it :D
Edited after watching: Oh that was excellent. I was thinking you might have used the ALife virus with all those naughty terminated viruses would have been quite visually interesting with the 'Virus terminator'. Looking forward to more in the series. Impressive how joshi helped michaelangelo though. I wonder if the audit thing would have picked anything up. Is this software archived anywhere (I haven't checked!)
10:50 I was watching this with my cat on my lap and as soon as she heard Leo she ran over to the window behind the TV to see what was going on 😅
Seriously great video. Looking forward to the next episode. I enjoy the length :)
I want to say hi, I've been watching ur videos for a few years now, you're loved ❤
Hello from the house of oct1 I will pass your message along to dan
Hello from the house of Gryffindor, I will pass your message along to Professor McConagall
Loved this video would like to see more of u having fun
Virus video greatest hits compilations combined with retro software reviews...this is awesome!
That was amazing, looking forward to the next one. 💙
honestly, i like the new variety of videos we've been getting, keep it up!
22:32 "Pig up or Pig down." Hahaha, loving the simpson's reference.
Finally!, after your playthrough of virus the game, was waiting for this series
this is a great series idea, i have lots of memories of playing around with tons of virus scanners back when i was a kid
the virus terminator review only took a few years but i'm happy that it finally came
14:54 going nuts… just like the hard drive indicator light! leo is sooo cute
I have no idea why Dan reading ancient texts to me is soothing, but it is :D
Nice, I can't wait to see these series along with the virus videos you already do.
Please do more of these videos, Dan. This was entertaining and had cats. Thumbs up!
Had Super Huey II for the Commodore 64. It's basically a heli gunship combat sim. In particular, the "Bermuda Triangle" mission was a mindfreak.
I was just watching the Magold virus vid and this was in it!! And that video is 7 years old...have people been waiting that long?
Cool vid 🎉
I had been waiting for this video for so long, and it took me too long to figure out it had dropped... This is a really promising series!!!!
The first part reminded me a lot of ashens lmao
this long form content is great! love it
Can’t wait for more of this series!
Dan please never stop your craft, it is amazing!!!
I like it! Very interesting video, I will happily see more of old antiviruses and messed up DOS :D
The fact that Joshi single-handedly called the shots to destroy Virus Terminator's reputation for good is amazing
this was fantastic! i’d love to see some Win16 AVs as that’s my favorite timespan of malware 😄✨
Nothing relaxes me like videos about ancient computer software. Looking forward to the new series.
Always happy to see a new danooct video. This was interesting!
I love this format! Keep it up
RIP Terminator, 30 years old and too beaten up like all of us
Aww yis! Loved it! Looking out for more, whenever 😎
This was a journey, I'm looking forward to more.
"i fear no man... but that THING... it scares me" -- danooct1, 2/24/2024 in reference to the Vienna DOS virus
You finally doing this after teasing it years ago is like ending an era
Definitely excited for this new series!
hey hey, i remember this guy from the magold video! can't wait to see more from this brand new series n_n
love the subtitles and cat cameos
I like that Joker style insanity with these viruses.
An antivirus program & a Leo appearance definitely made it a great video.
I remember when you proposed doing these videos in the Magold video, and this was an example of what you wanted to do.
I’ve been waiting for this! It feels like, that I’ll be back. 😎
Amazing, Love it
wouldnt mind more at all
I own a clipart CD from Cosmi Software where it has this insane DRM where i think it literally contains the entire software library of theirs but you had to put in a password to get the one you wanted. I was unable to get it to work and said DRM involved a window with this really fucking obnoxious FMV speaking to you about the license stuff. needless to say I do not in fact trust them.
It would be fun to see some viruses that were specifically designed to screw with specific AVs. Not sure if some exist out there
I feel like I’ll love these series.
a spreadsheet of which ones it recognized and which ones it didn't (maybe with a scoring system for different softwares?) could be fun. food for thought. ps give that kitty a treat for me
This is such a stupidly good idea for a series
I had both Inside Trader and Corporate Raider a s a kid; they're very similar games to each other which run on the same engine but have different objectives. They're both essentially stock market sims, with Inside Trader specifically having mechanics around illegal trading (hence the name) and Corporate Raider being more focused on hostile takeovers.
In addition...seeing Joshi and Michaelangelo like that in tandom...I wonder how many times you saw that in the wild back then? And...would be funny to see what happens with that Win 98 boot disk. LOL...that was kinda funny; will need to go back and watch your Joshi, Denzuko, and some of the others you mentioned, though I either forgot about, or didn't yet watch.
That Virus list is pretty cool. You should grab some of them if you can. I enjoyed pausing it, and reading through there.
I sometimes wonder, what did the authors of these virus’s go on to do in life. It would be great to find, and interview the authors of famous viruses.
I think there are interviews with some
@@tezcanaslan2877 I saw one with 2 Indian brothers who run a software company still
We need more Leo the cat and that, dan loves cats, which im a cat person.
But also we need more of these virus detectors, reading and box looking.
Because I would find this even more Entertaining and interesting but keep it up Dan. We love you
i remember u teasing this last year thank god
46 minute Danooct1 video??? Heaven has come to earth.
I think the box is what made it so special
That is a well lacquered table
only the finest cheap Chinese table from Amazon with the sharpest edges and corners imaginable for this channel
That was a lot of fun! I love how they went from "detects any virus" on the box to "well, maybe only changes to files you have selected/scanned in advance are found" in the manual. Did it even have a TSR component?
One request though: please replace Abraxis and that demon one with something that doesn't produce a hellishly high pitched sound. I had to mute those segments (thanks for the subtitles!)
Nice username 👌🏻
@@KeksimusMaximusLikewise, brother!
Cant wait for the Windows 9x ones.
This series is gonna be very interesting
Although Virus Terminator terminated some viruses, it was not strong enough to prevent its own termination.
"Alucard Inchoate"? That sounds like a forum username you pick after your first five attempts are already in use. Did someone literally just grab two random words for their company name?
Fun video, was amusing to see the demo collapse into a Joshi & Michaelangelo tagteam. But I gotta rant for a second. I remember Cosmi for the games they published on the C64; sooooo much jank. Their collection "20 solid gold" was... something. Notables:
Aztec Challenge: Essentially a string of minigames, several of which required the luck of not having two different threats fire off at the same time and make an unavoidable death wall.
Caverns of Khafka: Eardrum-damaging sound effects, not unlike some of the viruses shown today, except you paid for it. Only game I've seen where the gameplay seemed to require glitching through the walls.
Chernobyl: All the fun of sitting at a nuclear power plant console.
Knucker Hole: A 3 part game. The parts could be played individually, but the full game was impossible to beat because they didn't correctly reset the sprites between part 1 and part 2 and your oversized player sprite collided fatally with elevators.
Mediator: A bizarre and obtuse arcade puzzler. Never saw anyone beat this one. Only game I've seen that not only randomly interrupts you with a dull minigame, but resets your current stage progress after the minigame ends.
Slinky: QBert, if it was less fun. Had between-level vignettes like Ms. Pac-Man did. Your reward for not dying on a stage was not seeing short the vignette, instead showing the much longer and more boring "instant replay" of your gameplay across the entire stage. Twice I saw it glitch and decide to do the instant replay even though I died, desyncing at the death point and locking up the game because the replay never "wins"
Psycastria: A ripoff of Uridium. Notable for three things: 1) It used speech synthesis to insult you when you die, 2) the title music was (uncredited) Andy Lee Robinson's "Cold Tea" played in reverse, and 3) if you used an auto-fire joystick it would force a game over with a "Turn autofire off" message. Your thumbs will suffer as we please!
Professor I.Q.: Simple random minigames, written in BASIC. Most annoying thing was in a one player game you played "against" the professor (no AI for most of the games, he just awarded himself points on his turn) and he'd gloat if he won but physically punish a random nonexistent Player 2 if he lost. I wanted to see that smug PETSCII art professor suffer.
Some of the other games were decent-to-good, like the Forbidden Forest games. Time Tunnel was a fun puzzle game, even if the final puzzle made no sense. But *man* did that collection solidify in my mind the idea that Cosmi was 80% junk.
If I had to guess they mixed up the legal definition of "inchoate" as, like, "preparing against crime", when it really means that you're getting charged for attempt or conspiracy. That or they mean to say that their company is rudimentary, half-built and still out of order.
Not a flattering look for my boy Alucard.
I now have a video to watch now at night.
A question: How would an AV program stop a boot sector virus from running before the OS (and therefore the AV program and whatever else is in autoexec.bat) is even loaded where the AV software is a DOS program? Because if a virus is installed to the master boot record and replaces whatever OS's boot loader that was there before infection, then the AV program isn't going to be loaded to stop anything, as autoexec.bat (and config.sys) aren't going to even be parsed to load the AV program - the virus is going to run instead.
Therefore it would seem to me, unless the AV software picks up on the fact the virus code has replaced whatever OS boot loader that was there beforehand, BEFORE you restart it or shut it down and power it back up, then you would still be screwed anyway. And therefore, it would only be able to actually stop the boot sector virus IF it actually detects it BEFORE you restart the machine or power it down and then back up again.
In any case, I very much enjoy watching your videos and look forward to your next installment! Thanks for your efforts Dan!