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I didn’t understand why in 2010, it didn’t seem to make most news…

Took out the entire company where I worked.

People thought it was a worm/virus — few minutes after plugging in laptop, McAfee got the DAT update, quarantined the file; which caused Windows to start countdown+reboot (leading to endless BSODs).



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