Annoying yet sorta fun virus makes you watch ‘Homestar Runner’

Remember the old days of viruses — which instead of holding your computer to ransom unless you pay hundreds of dollars like they do now — would just mildly annoy you with random changes.

As you’ll see in the case of Email-Worm.Win32.Lacon, which has been detailed in a video by YouTuber danoct1.

On the 10th of every month, the virus sets your Internet Explorer homepage to the 404 webpage of the much-loved Homestar Runner and also forces a log off when you try and close a dialog box titled “Your Angry Computer.”

The virus affects Windows computers and spreads via an executable attached to an email about a “National Call Registry” program. But unlike today’s viruses, this one is just simply mildly annoying. Read more…

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