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I remember downloading what I thought was a no-CD crack for some game from Kazaa.
It was an app that locked my screen, opened a window, and systematically deleted every folder in my main C: drive before crashing. Then the screen went black and a message popped up that said "Thank god it's only a game."
The exe was an ad for some indie Doomclone FPS game where the levels were your computer's file structure and the walls of the rooms would be decorated with the images stored in your folders. I shut down my machine after that. I was shaking for the next hour.
If anyone knows the game, I'd love to learn what it was all about.
Here's a video of that .exe running:
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Fuck. I've been looking for that for so long. Had the same experience. It fucked me up.
The game it was advertising is called "Virus: The Game" pretty sure danooct1 made a video on the advert & game.
I vaguely remember seeing a news article about something like that. I think it was a game where killing enemies caused files to be deleted from your computer. It was portrayed as some kind of artistic statement about digital possessions or something.
Someone in the forum where it was being discussed sarcastically said they developed a live action version called "playing baseball inside."
It was a space invaders clone with files being the aliens?
It was 3D
They were just meshing around
I think that was called "We're All Going to the World's Fair" or something.
That's the name of a recent, unrelated horror movie, not the game in question.
It was a pretty good movie, if you're into horror.
I actually found it very sad. As a parent of a kid near the age of the main character, it was really painful to see her loneliness and isolation.
It was definitely a sad movie and not easy to watch at times. However, it was well written and acted, and considering it was the lead's debut performance, that's extra impressive. For me, it was one of those movies that's enjoyable, yet uncomfortable. I think it was very successful in what it set out to do.
The game's called "Virus The Game", if I'm not mistaken
Bingo! Thanks!
Did it actually delete everything
No. It was only a game.
That sounds awesome