Hackers can attempt to obtain our personal information in a variety of methods; typically, they do this by using phishing scams and deceptive emails or texts. However, what would happen if you deliberately went out of your way to download as many viruses as you could, ignoring all of these hoaxes and phoney links?
That was the plane for the YouTuber Homeless, who imagined a “boss fight” between all the viruses he could find and various security programmes. In an amusing video, he chronicles the procedure and explains his goal—to determine which antiviral was the best—in the least scientific manner imaginable.
In essence, this procedure entails searching for common programmes in unsuspecting locations and clicking on as many dubious links as you can.
His gaming laptop quickly becomes completely infested with pop-up advertisements, strange small apps, and attention-grabbing windows. However, he doesn’t stop there; he goes on to download a dubious version of Minecraft, for instance.
This also directs him to a website that genuinely offers a directory of malware viruses for download; instead of searching for viruses one by one, he can obtain a large number at once.
This entails a lot of blindly selecting “yes” in pop-up dialogue boxes, giving him extensive access to the backend and systems of his computer.
The fact that so many of the viruses seem to be aimed at younger users—posing as hack packages for games like Roblox or Fortnite, which have younger user bases—is very unsettling about all of this.
Nevertheless, the Homeless perseveres and quickly amasses hundreds of downloaded programs—some of which appear to have the capacity to proliferate and download further programmes on their own.
After downloading several hundred of his own, he at last moves on to explore what his antivirus software might be able to do to stop this onslaught. He installs many antivirus programmes, ranging from Bitdefender to Kaspersky and from Norton to McAfee.
He begins by simultaneously having them all check his computer, and it soon becomes apparent that his laptop is well beyond repair. The only thing to do is to let them run for endless hours, but surprisingly, some of the programs detect zero spyware.
