Downloading and running the 100 Malware links

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I downloaded and executed every file after visiting the top 100 most recent malware links in the wild for science! What happened to my system? Did we get ransomwared, hacked or bricked? find out!
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  • @MikaelKKarlsson
    @MikaelKKarlsson8 ай бұрын

    That "Updates are under way" prompt was so clear and direct that it couldn't possibly have been from Microsoft. 😂

  • @tejasraman6913

    @tejasraman6913

    8 ай бұрын

    Actually that is a legitimate message that real Windows systems (since some 2021 Windows 10 Insider build from March iirc) have used

  • @MikaelKKarlsson

    @MikaelKKarlsson

    8 ай бұрын

    @@tejasraman6913 I would love to see that in the wild. But I doubt. It's not their style for the last ten years or so.

  • @AAjsk30

    @AAjsk30

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MikaelKKarlsson it is real, i have windows 11

  • @xfgdf

    @xfgdf

    8 ай бұрын

    its real, i used to have windows 10 22h2 and that prompt exists

  • @stroft2real

    @stroft2real

    7 ай бұрын

    it's real i use win11@@MikaelKKarlsson

  • @joepjoep9531
    @joepjoep95318 ай бұрын

    The best part of this video is to see and hear how much fun you had 😅

  • @brage218
    @brage2188 ай бұрын

    Observing antiviruses thwart malware is intriguing, but it's even more amusing when they mistakenly block benign software.

  • @lilwoodiewood3457

    @lilwoodiewood3457

    7 ай бұрын

    hoow do u get it to say your not a virus every peace of software i make says its a virus when its not

  • @someone3541

    @someone3541

    7 ай бұрын

    @@lilwoodiewood3457you need a certificate for 30$ :(

  • @nicholasneyhart396

    @nicholasneyhart396

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@lilwoodiewood3457Code better.

  • @CoolJosh3k
    @CoolJosh3k8 ай бұрын

    I would like to see how common this is for Linux and Mac computers, vs how many for Windows only. While it only takes 1 malicious process to be running, I still find it shows a general risk factor.

  • @falloutboy286

    @falloutboy286

    8 ай бұрын

    True same with a basic Debian distro (maybe Mint) out of the box would be very nice to see

  • @realsleepi
    @realsleepi8 ай бұрын

    I would like to see this become a series against anti-virus programs, or will they automatically block anything from the open source database?

  • @colinscarbro1975
    @colinscarbro19758 ай бұрын

    Good stuff. This helps me at my level of IT support/knowledge. Your content helps me understand malware activity and the tools I can use. FYI. Understanding how malware works has helped me stop a network enabled ransomware in our business. It escaped AV and encrypted 1000s of files but was manually stopped because I had some understanding of the nature of the attack. We had good backups so two fingers at the authors. Thank you for your content.

  • @aliveandwellinisrael2507
    @aliveandwellinisrael25078 ай бұрын

    It would be interesting to run some inside something like Sandboxie, then examine the filesystem of the sandbox to see what the malware had created

  • @photlam9769

    @photlam9769

    7 ай бұрын

    i fucking knew you didnt hang yourself

  • @PCLinke
    @PCLinke8 ай бұрын

    You should have run it again while windows defender is ON, to see how it can preform against latest malwares. Noneless good video

  • @SiganQ
    @SiganQ8 ай бұрын

    That was fun :) Do this regularly. It could be valuable if you happen to find something cutting edge by accident

  • @TheyLive1984
    @TheyLive19848 ай бұрын

    I love these videos. Thanks for doing what you do brother

  • @PinkAgaricus
    @PinkAgaricus7 ай бұрын

    I wonder if the price of the ransomware is targeting executives (top of the company), not grunt (normal) employees. It's basically targeting executives (judging by the nearly 18 grand a month) without telling us they're targeting execs.

  • @MStrong95
    @MStrong958 ай бұрын

    Now I'm curious if any of the modern malware and viruses would work on older Windows versions, say Win7, XP and 98. Also I'd be interested in seeing this done for Mac OS, Android and Linux. I mean I think Windows programs are going to need a compatibility layer to run on Linux and Mac OS but I'd be curious about how much trouble you could get into if such a thing was installed on a non Windows system.

  • @lorencalfe6446

    @lorencalfe6446

    8 ай бұрын

    malware authors usually just cobble together poorly conceived bs and hope for the best, or they are terminally online on the garbage dark web ui refreshing the page for vulnerability exploits, which they copy and paste on their trash software. most hackers arent smart. They are just script kiddies who need to reinstall their os every month or so. The companies and government especially police are just incredibly inept seemingly 70-80 iq on average.. Also white hats are huge simps for black hats/ criminals. Red hats are effective but too rare to make a dent in the cybermoron sorry ‘black hat’ population.

  • @lorencalfe6446

    @lorencalfe6446

    8 ай бұрын

    The answer is the companies are so inept that only a moron needs to make malware to get into a macos. Most malware cannot work on mac because of how the system works. The sandboxing and restrictions on functions cripples malicious software. However even apple is hopping on the idiot band wagon and adding a bunch of idiotic features that the legitimate user would never use. The reason computers get hacked is because of pointless functions that seem to only be made for hackers.

  • @StephenMcGregor1986

    @StephenMcGregor1986

    6 ай бұрын

    I am willing to visit every single malware and dodgy site in the universe. I've been fighting Google, whilst keeping the internet from failing all together. Not quite blacklist the world, but close enough. Anyone ever try to Geoblock China? It does weird things to internet traffic lol.

  • @ayajade6683

    @ayajade6683

    5 ай бұрын

    Usually no as they lack the proper code and exploits used. Also lacks the power needed even on modern hardware for some reason

  • @mechman7008
    @mechman70088 ай бұрын

    More videos like this please! I enjoyed it :)

  • @TheCocoaDaddy
    @TheCocoaDaddy8 ай бұрын

    Awesome video! Thanks for posting! Would it be possible to do a browser user agent "spoof" test to see if changing your browser agent has much of an impact on malware installed via browser? Thanks again for posting!

  • @antoo2711
    @antoo27118 ай бұрын

    Love your videos man!

  • @ejavierpr
    @ejavierpr8 ай бұрын

    As always, great vid!

  • @shurmurray
    @shurmurray8 ай бұрын

    A bit of an offtopic: i'd like to watch some kind of tutorial how can you detect or even clean *some* malware from a win10/11 machine when there is no antivirus available nor any specialised tools. Just using bare windows and standart programms what is possible to do? (there was a number of situations in my life when it was needed). Thanks!

  • @Jakknifed
    @Jakknifed8 ай бұрын

    I am here and excited to see what the video holds!

  • @harmonbrentdm
    @harmonbrentdm8 ай бұрын

    Now you should do a video on what Malware removing program will work on a infected malware machine.

  • @Jetmo
    @Jetmo8 ай бұрын

    Brave, very brave! LOL, Thanks for the content!

  • @lePoTo51
    @lePoTo518 ай бұрын

    Would love too see how multiple AV react to sampling getting download and started

  • @Barak600
    @Barak6008 ай бұрын

    Where do you get your malware samples from, if I might ask?

  • @brokenchimp0
    @brokenchimp08 ай бұрын

    Totally do more about new malware please.

  • @brunoruiztalamo3692
    @brunoruiztalamo36928 ай бұрын

    So, in that case you can hack your computer back and inject and force the execution of the program “Tron”. It searchs, kills all malware and may take hours but it’s 100% effective to this day. Bad thing is your cookies and temporary files will be erased no matter what.

  • @dmac93065
    @dmac930658 ай бұрын

    This was fun. Please do more like this

  • @Slurkz
    @Slurkz8 ай бұрын

    Great video 💜! Now please repeat on macOS and Linux 🤓

  • @lanep4322
    @lanep43225 ай бұрын

    Great experiment. Are any malware evolving to detect and overcome the limitations of virtual environments?

  • @kuroyuki4457
    @kuroyuki44578 ай бұрын

    It is nice to see eset represented in your videos

  • @LordOgr1312
    @LordOgr13127 ай бұрын

    you deserve more subs ngl

  • @Kevllarr
    @Kevllarr8 ай бұрын

    Might be a bit hard to do, but would be interesting to see some MacOS stuff since a lot of users nowadays use Macs. But getting MacOS on a virtual machine might be a bit hard haha

  • @furdiburd

    @furdiburd

    8 ай бұрын

    Pov linux: lemme plug in my usb and fire up a live OS

  • @U20E0

    @U20E0

    8 ай бұрын

    It’s not hard, but you do need to spend some more time with the configuration since most VM software isn’t designed with running macOS in mind.

  • @-WhatTheActualHay-

    @-WhatTheActualHay-

    8 ай бұрын

    That would be pretty interesting

  • @Kevllarr

    @Kevllarr

    8 ай бұрын

    Yeah that's fair, good to know it's possible. I just thought, knowing what Apple is like, they've probably made it really hard to run Ventura for example on other stuff that's not their own M1 or M2 machines. But yeah, would be interesting to see how bullet proof MacOS is. I know in the past at least there seemed to be an attitude towards that Mac is a bit more secure than Windows. But because a lot of people use Macs nowadays, could be interesting.

  • @The-wq9qs
    @The-wq9qs8 ай бұрын

    Could some of the malwares escape the virtual machine to host machine?

  • @Faisalkhamis1177
    @Faisalkhamis11778 ай бұрын

    Can you make a video on how to decrypt ransomware?

  • @ice20861
    @ice208618 ай бұрын

    More of these please!

  • @dkat1108
    @dkat11088 ай бұрын

    Watching this I immediately said to myself time to make a full backup....LOL

  • @ThanhTienOfficial11020
    @ThanhTienOfficial110208 ай бұрын

    supp, Malwarebytes beta version 5.0 is available, can you do a test on that new version?

  • @cymec4515
    @cymec45158 ай бұрын

    so even if u dont open the file ur pc can still get infected? 0:49

  • @ravdeepboparai
    @ravdeepboparai8 ай бұрын

    Need your help. I came across a malware which try to download itself in a chrome. So there was site, which opened a new tab and then next thing i saw that it was trying to save some php. How can malware automatically save itself from a site and how to protect from it?

  • @electricspider2267
    @electricspider22676 ай бұрын

    It may have just been a prank-virus that shuts pc down. When i was in school, i (almost) got in trouble for making one of those because the previous guy didnt log out. I wanted to prank him for the lulz. Made a tiny script, and replaced the iexplorer shortcut. My teacher was pretty cool about it and just took me from my class to remove it. God i loved that teacher!

  • @TheExcetto
    @TheExcetto8 ай бұрын

    Got alot of time for this🤣 very good

  • @iam-py-test
    @iam-py-test8 ай бұрын

    FYI, Zemana as a company is completely dead. Their software has not been updated in years, and their support email does not exist anymore. Though, not using Zemana products does nothing to protect you from their vulnerable software...

  • @WhattEvery
    @WhattEvery8 ай бұрын

    Trial Malwarebytes only for VM? Do you use Windows, if yes, do you use Anti-malware/virus, and if yes, which one?

  • @RyanMartin00
    @RyanMartin008 ай бұрын

    This brings back rogueamp memories

  • @Apemania69
    @Apemania698 ай бұрын

    good demonstration of guardio

  • @TheSuperTeacher
    @TheSuperTeacher8 ай бұрын

    Could the share the script?

  • @thisisfyne
    @thisisfyne8 ай бұрын

    Bro I got anxiety just seeing you click on all those things o_O

  • @kps3274
    @kps32748 ай бұрын

    Aoemie partition wizard and the like are malware right? How do you get rid of them?

  • @Karl_310
    @Karl_3105 ай бұрын

    Man thanks for the content, it's always interesting and cool. But i have a problem: if i scan the sistem with my av (eset) it says to me that there is a potential threat and it's a variant of UEFI/CompuTrace.A (a file i think) in the firmware. can you tell me how to fix this? i tried to eliminate the file i but i can't "find" it (sorry for my bad english, i'm italian).

  • @fredwright4423
    @fredwright44238 ай бұрын

    Did anyone tell you hypervisor escapes and check exist befoee attempt this glorious event?

  • @ozymandias_times9663
    @ozymandias_times96638 ай бұрын

    Would love to see a new Browser Showdown with the new DuckDuckGo browser

  • @person-fy8kd
    @person-fy8kd8 ай бұрын

    If I did it on my school wifi I would probably get in trouble/ possibly blocked from using the wifi at least temporarily

  • @furdiburd

    @furdiburd

    8 ай бұрын

    Nahhh... You will just get a 7 day ban from life

  • @TechTusiast
    @TechTusiast5 ай бұрын

    My first three questions are: 1) Was your Windows fully updated? 2) Did your script run with user level rights or as admistatrator? 3) Were you logged in as user or administrator when running these?

  • @stephenarkless9444
    @stephenarkless94448 ай бұрын

    Yeah definately more experiments like this

  • @blissisdivine
    @blissisdivine8 ай бұрын

    Please test WOT that is Web of Trust Premium add-on which is a competitor of Guardio.

  • @itsarian.
    @itsarian.8 ай бұрын

    can you give the .vmdk file to the vm you use in every video?

  • @kevinwong_2016
    @kevinwong_20168 ай бұрын

    1:57 you should do this again but with mobile malware.💀

  • @sullychow4123
    @sullychow41237 ай бұрын

    Which AV is the most effective.

  • @NikolasTheCuber
    @NikolasTheCuber8 ай бұрын

    Can you please do a test of Malwarebytes 6.1. Thanks!

  • @THUNDER52
    @THUNDER527 ай бұрын

    How big do viruses actually have to be to do damage (word file size or MB game mod size)?

  • @MrAw3sum

    @MrAw3sum

    6 ай бұрын

    Viruses dont have to big at all, a lot of them try to hide their virus status by being a file that is jist barely big enough so the scanner doesnt bother with it or too big to upload to virustotal, however theres plenty of scary scripts that basically are made of small parts that download the rest of the virus to complete itself so it can escape detection from scanners

  • @Weirt_

    @Weirt_

    5 ай бұрын

    Small as they can download other malware.

  • @thepurplesmurf
    @thepurplesmurf8 ай бұрын

    6:00 shots fired 😈🤣

  • @erofaeruf8010
    @erofaeruf80105 ай бұрын

    Questions: what happens if you *don’t* have Windows Defender nor any antivirus at all? Is there anything at all stopping malwares?

  • @bleakyfinder2692
    @bleakyfinder26928 ай бұрын

    Make a Emergency Folder then Run Rkill first then run Tronscript Simples.

  • @realreymods
    @realreymods8 ай бұрын

    is it possible to get maleware on your PC when you are watching a video on Twitter?

  • @CoolJosh3k

    @CoolJosh3k

    8 ай бұрын

    Simple answer: no. However, it is possible in general the same as with any website due to A. A Twitter impersonator site or B. Twitter’s own website is compromised. An actual stream of video/audio data is not executed as instructions and is only ever interpreted as data.

  • @wizkid86
    @wizkid866 ай бұрын

    How about doing this test again but with a good commercial DNS filter next time?

  • @routeone4790
    @routeone47908 ай бұрын

    can u do a kaspersky update?

  • @75hilmar
    @75hilmar8 ай бұрын

    Hi, can you show how to remove some UEFI Virus?

  • @Pepe721
    @Pepe7218 ай бұрын

    Hi @pcsecuritychannel I rarely leave comments on videos but I had a question on why u use or prefer windows over any Linux distribution,, especially knowing that windows has the bloatware, telemetry and most apps being proprietary?

  • @Dragonfire511
    @Dragonfire5118 ай бұрын

    7:22 That creator string is written in Georgian... Interesting.

  • @ConfusedRaccoon
    @ConfusedRaccoon5 ай бұрын

    How come the ransomware didn't change all the malware packages to .knight? And if they did somehow copy everything that quickly, would they now also have the malware folder?

  • @KeRimoYT
    @KeRimoYT7 ай бұрын

    why didnt you just select every folder and run it

  • @Hi.imdory
    @Hi.imdory7 ай бұрын

    Malware is like an unwanted child. It can be prevented by using protection.

  • @thechabadman-vp6pj

    @thechabadman-vp6pj

    7 ай бұрын

    yea but sometimes there is a hole in the protection and the best way to prevent is to not be reckless

  • @JB-dz7sb
    @JB-dz7sb5 ай бұрын

    Link to open source site where you downloaded the malware samples? For science.

  • @ViIgax
    @ViIgax8 ай бұрын

    Any malware like Seroxen?

  • @gamer_X322
    @gamer_X3228 ай бұрын

    can u provide this python script link

  • @TimVels
    @TimVels8 ай бұрын

    It was funny and still dangerous!

  • @AlayTheVex
    @AlayTheVex8 ай бұрын

    Talk about pc accelerant please

  • @michaellangley6998
    @michaellangley69988 ай бұрын

    Sadly that ransom note with the average $18k/month average salary per employee, could be more accurate than you think, due to the insane pay gap between most top level management and executives and the lowest paid front line workers. 😢😢😢

  • @paparazzo80
    @paparazzo808 ай бұрын

    Would you upload .py script/file?

  • @malte200900

    @malte200900

    5 ай бұрын

    Would also love to have a copy of the script

  • @bretjohnd.morales9310
    @bretjohnd.morales93108 ай бұрын

    Can you share the script?

  • @Seekeroftruth191
    @Seekeroftruth1918 ай бұрын

    and then he gets one that can VLAN hope

  • @The_G_Dev
    @The_G_Dev8 ай бұрын

    hey leo i dont mean to bug you but every time join your discord server i get banned for no reason please help

  • @latrechedhiyaeddine
    @latrechedhiyaeddine5 ай бұрын

    that good video but can you give me the source code for test him in my vm

  • @Quackerilla
    @Quackerilla8 ай бұрын

    FOR SCIENCE

  • @regwatson2017
    @regwatson20178 ай бұрын

    Good experiment but not very scientific if you are running several at a time. I would like to see how many can beat Microsoft Defender.

  • @wannabedal-adx458
    @wannabedal-adx4588 ай бұрын

    "I am running this with no protection, not even Windows Defender." Why are you being redundant?!??? 😂

  • @ronp5615
    @ronp56157 ай бұрын

    For science! 100% safe and effective!

  • @leahsim2001
    @leahsim20013 ай бұрын

    ok so my asus laptop got this message back then, and what happened is it just fucked up my laptop, I can't believe it was malware, it bypassed my windows defender? and yes that laptop is now extinct and I'm just taking my files from it's hdd (which I am also scared because it can infect my new laptop)

  • @silence4682
    @silence46828 ай бұрын

    Why didn't you use Kaspersky?

  • @zilverman7820

    @zilverman7820

    8 ай бұрын

    He only used 2nd opinion scanners. If he has av's enabled, the test will not run.

  • @CoolJosh3k
    @CoolJosh3k8 ай бұрын

    If it could have been stopped by Windows Defender, I don’t think it should count for much.

  • @SquirrelsInTheBackyard
    @SquirrelsInTheBackyard8 ай бұрын

    love it

  • @Sunny-jz7zy
    @Sunny-jz7zy7 ай бұрын

    You didn't made the video length 13:37 minutes... missed oppertunity right there.

  • @superbaggio87
    @superbaggio878 ай бұрын

    what will happen if you try to contact them and tell them you dont care about the files to recover because it was all done un porpuse and tell them to GFTS🤣

  • @Mannard74
    @Mannard748 ай бұрын

    I predict the computer starts leaking Ganges River out the towers' gills

  • @imabachelor
    @imabachelor4 ай бұрын

    how can i download this python script?

  • @Dj-An0n
    @Dj-An0n8 ай бұрын

    Seems fun but wouldn’t the guest os be able to infect the host’s os?

  • @reddeadleisure

    @reddeadleisure

    5 ай бұрын

    Its a vm

  • @ucanh8173
    @ucanh81732 ай бұрын

    where is that script dude

  • @AuriosCPU
    @AuriosCPU8 ай бұрын

    Ok i don't understand the purpose of these tests, you said yourself, not even Windows Defender is enabled. So that's not realistic because most of people doesn't trust any Antivirus and believes they have Windows Defender so Windows will protect them. So i'd like to see the exact same thing but with Windows Defender enabled and see what happens.

  • @JarppaGuru
    @JarppaGuru8 ай бұрын

    2:15 yes you need download and install or launch them to work. same as install malware on phone you need install and give all permission to anything work. dont do it. you not need that texteditor that want all permission LOL. you not need any permission anyways its all designed wrong. only permission to that file you open NOT all on gallery. right. easy fix all proglem lol lol

  • @Crisopeia
    @Crisopeia8 ай бұрын

    4 views, 6 likes 🧐

  • @Geniusinside2023
    @Geniusinside20238 ай бұрын

    The site is down unfortunately 😂🤣 So inconvenient i know 😂😂😂

  • @longbranch4493
    @longbranch44938 ай бұрын

    How does a malicious website infect a computer? Can you get infected just by visiting it? Also, if you downloaded a malicious file but didn't open it, would it infect your PC? For both questions, imagine that you don't have an antivirus. Thank you.

  • @lussor1

    @lussor1

    8 ай бұрын

    Javascript...

  • @furdiburd

    @furdiburd

    8 ай бұрын

    Your pages run sandboxed and this is why not you whole broswer goes down when somezhing goes wrong on a pgae so no you cant get infected by just visiting a site. Downloading a malware still fine till you open it.

  • @aceae4210

    @aceae4210

    8 ай бұрын

    @@furdiburd though to add to this, there are no user interactions download "exploits" (if can they be called that) that still leaves the malware samples in your downloads directory which is a single double click away from trouble (worse if it's ofuscated like showing it to be a pdf but instead it's a scr(een saver) file (which runs code the same as a .exe))