I'm a pretty brave girl, I'm not gonna lie. Bugs, rats, killer zombies? None of that phases me. But like every normal human being, I am afraid of somethings, more like some THING. Biggest fear of all time: computer viruses.
It all started when the internet first got introduced into regular households. Sometime in the 90s, I think when I was around 8/9 yrs old-ish. INTERNET?! What a revolutionary concept! We wanted to explore every inch of this "internet" as we could. My little brother and I would surf on our new dial-up internet together every night. One late night, my brother decided to go on some Pokemon website titled Y2K Mewtwo. While scrolling through the website, we accidently right-click on the mouse. A pop-up window comes up. It says something along the lines of "why did you just do that?" I try to X it out and another pop-up replaces it. "you shouldn't have done that" I try Xing it out again, this time even more freaked out and possibly on the verge of hyperventalating. Another pop-up. "You're going to regret this."
"Say goodbye to your computer"
I immediately dive down to the outlet and rip out the plug to our computer. I didn't touch the computer for a good while after that.
Thanks to that childhood incident, i've been terrified of computer viruses ever since. I'm scared to do virus scans, and when I actually do find out there's one on my computer, I can't take care of it alone. I always have to have someone in the room with me, or I'll call someone up for technical help and mental support.
And now I hear that computer virus attacks are to be on it's highest point next Monday?!?!?!
Help.
It all started when the internet first got introduced into regular households. Sometime in the 90s, I think when I was around 8/9 yrs old-ish. INTERNET?! What a revolutionary concept! We wanted to explore every inch of this "internet" as we could. My little brother and I would surf on our new dial-up internet together every night. One late night, my brother decided to go on some Pokemon website titled Y2K Mewtwo. While scrolling through the website, we accidently right-click on the mouse. A pop-up window comes up. It says something along the lines of "why did you just do that?" I try to X it out and another pop-up replaces it. "you shouldn't have done that" I try Xing it out again, this time even more freaked out and possibly on the verge of hyperventalating. Another pop-up. "You're going to regret this."
"Say goodbye to your computer"
I immediately dive down to the outlet and rip out the plug to our computer. I didn't touch the computer for a good while after that.
Thanks to that childhood incident, i've been terrified of computer viruses ever since. I'm scared to do virus scans, and when I actually do find out there's one on my computer, I can't take care of it alone. I always have to have someone in the room with me, or I'll call someone up for technical help and mental support.
And now I hear that computer virus attacks are to be on it's highest point next Monday?!?!?!
Help.
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