Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million

[Porthos]

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/27/persistence-of-chaos-malware-laptop-auction/

 

[JoeTech]

I wish now that I would have tried to auction off one customers XP laptop with the most adware I have ever seen instead of cleaning it. I could have been rich!

 

[thecomputerguy]

A "work of art?"

I think not.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

wts xp laptop with working .jpg virus, only 200,000 dollars xD

 

[GreyWolf]

I wish now that I would have tried to auction off one customers XP laptop with the most adware I have ever seen instead of cleaning it. I could have been rich!

God if I would of known that one day I could of pulled off a stunt like that and make a million bucks man I would of printed out and kept a high class printed copy of 40hex. Oh well I'm sure I have that ping pong virus from the 80's somewhere on a floppy.

 

[seedubya]

I strongly suspect that the auction is part of the "artwork" though I remain open to correction.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

No takers? how about 1000? After all a .jpg is worth a thousand words dollars

 

[Your PCMD]

Who would have thought that I have a potential gold mine in my back room? Damn, I am retiring early

 

[DataMedics]

If a laptop with six viruses is a "work of art" then my RAID array full of full customer HDD images must be the Metropolitan, the Louvre and the Smithsonian museums all rolled into one. I'd bet I could find 50,000 viruses on there including all of the ones on that stupid laptop.

Must have been some rich moron who bought it. It's amazing the crap people pass off as "art" today.

 

[Your PCMD]

It's amazing the crap people pass off as "art" today.

Yup, art used to be art, now its all crap. Agreed...

Someone pees in a bowl and its art, someone does a painting with shite (literally) and its art and someone does paintings with menstrual cycle fluid and its art. I think its a pile of stinking mess.