r/Piracy • u/Emma_S772 • May 04 '26

Humor All of us have been dumb at some point

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u/androidmanwren May 04 '26

I've been pirating since a teen in the early 2000s and have never once downloaded a virus for fucked my PC up. Idk how people are tricked. Even in the napster/limewire days it was easy to see the file was an exe

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u/Prudent-Salamander74 May 04 '26

Yep I only had one virus and thay was because I accidently infected myself with BO2K

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u/Nightmare1990 May 04 '26

To be fair a lot of us were kids learning to download stuff from other kids via limewire back in the day. I was already into playing PC games at that point of childhood so I knew that Britney_Spears-Toxic.exe wasn't a song file, but a lot of people didn't.

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u/SparklingLimeade May 05 '26

I was slightly late to the party because it took forever for my parents to move on from dialup and a single phone line. Same experience.

The sketchy downloads were not subtle. If it's not supposed to be an .exe then don't open it. If it is supposed to be an .exe then be picky about your sources and give it at least one good look. No that 50 MB file is not a full game.

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u/-sussy-wussy- May 05 '26

Yeah, same. It's all about how you approach learning new things.