The invisible PC killer from the ’90s is still around—and most people don’t know it

The early days of people having internet in their homes were pretty wild. Viruses were pretty much everywhere, and unlike now, many users had no clue what to do with them. I was a tween in the early ’00s, but I remember intervening when my mom’s PC had what felt like hundreds of them, with pop-ups and ads covering up the entire desktop, impossible to remove.