1996 Anti Virus Program & More [WIOMD #10] | Nostalgia Nerd

[@BobMonkeypimp]

I just discovered this channel last year & it's now one of my favourites. You seem like a nice, well measured chap with just the right amount of dry wit (without it ever crossing to sarcasm) & your videos are always top notch. From the high production documentary videos (such as your recent Amiga 2 parter) to videos such as this, they're all a joy to watch. You seem to be about my age too so the nostalgia hits exactly the right spot to be relevant to me. Thanks for the excellent channel & I wish you continued growth & success for the future.

[@misspacman82]

man....your channel brings back memories! Thanx!

[@TheJamieRamone]

THUNDERBYTE! The BEST and most original antivirus ever created! It was the 1st 1 2 implement heuristics in the virus checker, meaning it was miles ahead of all the rest!

[@McIntec]

11:00 You kill me man with it freaking out and it farts... "sounds like a commodore 64!" I'm dying!! 🤣😂

[@jthorpe4droid]

I use to love the old DOS programs that allowed you to explore the disk sectors in a hex view.

[@stradlemonkey444]

DOS! I used to be pretty good with it, dealing with twerking config.sys and autoexec.bat, driver nightmares... the good old days! Great channel!

[@DrewberTravels]

8:00 lol I don't understand what you Brits saw in that song King of Rock and Roll.

[@triggerthesound767]

D. B The fact that it is a brilliant song? Cool to see Prefab Sprout reference one a random video.

[@eukaryote-prime]

Boy, I wish I still had all my old stuff. I remember going home after college only to find out that my father had thrown out my 386 and anything else laying around since nobody had been using it. My whole teenage years :(

[@rawr51919]

Arlo Jeremy Should've taken it to college with you...

[@fishofgold6553]

+Arlo Jeremy Ugggggghhhhhhhhh....trust a parent to just go through their child's property and just casually throw away ancient relics of personal impotance...Btw, did this happen recently, or was it years ago?

[@DeadlyDeasley]

brilliant as usual. I just got my Sega Saturn today nerd soo many memories it's awesome

[@Rockythefishman]

Love messing around in DOS takes me right back to 94

[@Bob3519]

This brought back some great memories. I worked at Toshiba doing consumer/business user support starting about Sept. '95. Even though most machines had the "new" Windows 95 installed, we walked the customers through installing, moving, deleting files using DOS since it was easier to tell them what to type rather than where or how to move the mouse around. Thanks for sharing this.

[@logansorenssen]

Every time I use DOS, I'm reminded of the good old days, and I'm also reminded of why I started using UNIX!

[@AzzBoekie]

When you call the 024-number, some Asian woman picks up and says "Herro??" 😂

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Ha! PKUnzip. that was like some serious sorcery back then! "You mean I can make files smaller, AND easier to store/copy?!"

[@natgrant1364]

I remember knowing plenty of dos commands back when I would fiddle around with modding Doom, Heretic and the Build engine games but I barely remember how to do much more than change and list directories now. lol

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

I remember Windows for Workgroups and the hotdog setting so very well. :)

[@jeffyp2483]

Ya! i remember hotdog. made my stomach turn. still does. i loved the novelty of it, just couldnt ever look at it for more than 5 seconds. my favorite was marine and/or emerald or somethings like them.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

@@jeffyp2483 Yeah the colors (red for ketchup and yellow for mustard) were a bit mush. Gave me a headache if I looked at it for too long. :)

[@GadgetEyeGuides]

It must be really strange to go into a computers filesystem and see 1995 next to the current year...

[@FoxerTails]

Yes! Have been waiting for this!

[@devjock]

I was always an ARJ archive kinda guy. Can't beat Thunderbyte, such a nice looking interface, and gloriously made on home soil. Used it well into windows 95 times. iirc it was one of the first scanners that could identify viruses based on heuristics. Awesome stuff!

[@btr3k]

Love this stuff... makes me feel like I'm in 1992!

[@makdelLabs]

"'Recalling DOS commands"' lol... epic!

[@SJFrzrbrn]

It's videos like this that make me wish I had kept all my old stuff from the way back. I could curate my own museum of techno antiquity being the spoiled rotten only child of upper middle class American family.

[@thetriangleboys6457]

I here ya man.

[@Daehawk]

The GREAT old days. BBSs were pretty good about scanning what they put up. I did get the DOOM2Deth or DOOM2Death virus from a ripped DOOM II game. Strangely enough McAfee sent me a free disk to clean it with..in the mail...the snail mail. Would have laughed if that app had said "Win 10 is a virus" and deleted it.

[@easycompzeelandold2521]

The Netherlands for the win! 4:14

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

I like this old retro stuff a lot!

[@awilfox]

That may be the earliest public mention of PGP I have yet witnessed irl.

[@pilovali]

It looks like that Tbav's BBS was hosted in my region. Atleast according to the old phonenumber :P

[@michaelparker2449]

Most of my DOS and Basic knowledge has been destroyed by beer.

[@Nostalgianerd]

FIRST

[@MadxScott]

Nice

[@jonnyretro5873]

Nostalgia Nerd SECOND

[@1blisslife]

Nostalgia Nerd Techmoan donated to your cause??? Both of you are fantastic youtubers!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Well done.

[@LilShootDawg]

what version of Windows for Workgroups are you using?

[@rossuk123]

Would be cool if you got in touch with some of these program writers and see what they are up too now

[@Nostalgianerd]

Yes. Indeed it would.

[@xiphy94]

i remember using this! i feel old !

[@TheYoungestRetroGamer]

Glad this has come back

[@Puremindgames]

The DOS age ended just as I found computers so my knowlage is limited to the simple commands.

[@calinux]

one of the best Antiviruses at those times... after this come pccilin!!! :P

[@Fazeof1p]

I think I still have PCCillin on the Windows 98 pc that I still has. Nowadays I use AVGFree and Spybot S&D for my newer sidehobby laptops, but for my older system it works fine. :)

[@TheRetroRaven]

I remember using Dr. Solomons Antivirus - again and again it proved to be more effective than, at that time, McAfee. Later I switched to Norton Antivirus (windows era) - since I was already a huge fan of Norton Commander and Norton Utilities.

[@mattmyers2863]

cool video! any thoughts on doing a Sam Coupe video?

[@SuperCookieGaming_]

3dbench is probably chris's 3d bench that phil's computer lab uses

[@Lagib28]

I was wondering if we would ever see a WTHIOMD episode again. Its been awhile.

[@jedits1988]

Hah I knew it was ThunderByte Antivirus! I've used this myself.

[@angelomachils8376]

the color scheme is quite a shock at 7 in the morning ;)

[@ian_b]

I remember using Thunderbyte. It rid me of a boot sector virus that had arrived on a floppy given to me by a friend who had downloaded some er gifs on his modem, which was a device used to connect to gopher or something.

[@ady-001]

It would be fun to test these old AV against some newer viruses :D

[@KuraIthys]

Ah, viruses. I remember having a disk with a touch typing training program. That had a virus on it. Really nasty one too! Started overwriting random files on the hard drive with complete garbage. Of course, it was already written on the disk that the virus was there, I just didn't recognise the warning. Getting rid of it was quite easy because the disk was ancient compared to the computer, so the antivirus program I installed had no trouble at all dealing with it... But it still caused a huge amount of damage. They don't tend to write viruses like that anymore nowadays... XD ... Ones that wreck all your stuff...

[@AlyxxTheRat]

Alt-tabing in DOSBox sometimes locks up the alt or tab keys. Just fyi.

[@haxxy40]

I missed this series. How many disks you have left? :D

[@fauzirahman3285]

I still use a lot of command prompt at work, along with powershell, and scripting of the above, so this still stays fresh, however, have not touched PKZIP fo a long time.

[@nedmurry7283]

ThunderByte Antivirus en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderByte_Antivirus

[@ItsBigIan]

I think at the end there you were running an emulated version of windows in an emulated version of windows within DOSbox.

[@SuperRandomForum]

Thunderbyte antivirus, sold to norman antivirus which were sold to AVG :D

[@robertlinke2666]

just found the series. finished the last one before this today..

[@jeffyp2483]

Sometimes, if memory serves, the '...cannot find...one of its components...' error stems from requiring a newer version of windows. it looks like you have windows 2.x there (earlier release than win 3.x anyway) i wouldnt be suprised at all if simply running those 'w' exe's provided a different result. if only ever so subtly.

[@davidsucesso2419]

you are having realy better luck than me. that is my second diskette reader that cant read anymore after trying some diskettes... i think some disks are bad and clugging reader head

[@netherforager]

3:19 is that the troom troom jingle in the background

[@aberroa1955]

I'd love to see ancient 3DBench...

[@thogameskanaal]

Why does it show the Windows XP logo instead of the Windows 3.1 logo?

[@alexanderstevenson6484]

It’s a custom DOSBox version

[@over00lordunknown12]

5:21 Unfortunately, it appears as though the website worldaccess.nl/ is now down for the count... :/ :( (Checking archive.org, I don't see a backup of it either... :/)

[@Sparkette]

A Commodore 64? I can think of something else that sounded exactly like...

[@johnrickard8512]

I wonder if that thing can catch Wanacry red-handed.

[@TheJaguar1983]

Hotdog Stand burns my eyes

[@Lofote]

You know you have overwritten your path with only that PKUNZIP.exe path? ;) Maybe thats why your programs did not work then later.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Windows doesn't rely on DOS paths.

[@Lofote]

Mmmh, not for everything, but it does use them in some parts. Even in Windows 10 times every process has a socalled environment, where also the PATH variable is defined ;)... Might not be the problem here, but I would at least try :) because if those EXEs were not well programmed it could the the cause here ;)

[@onometre]

Nostalgia Nerd windows definitely still uses paths for some programs. JavaC comes to mind

[@presidentkiller]

@@Nostalgianerd PATH has evolved into an "Environment Variable" in Windows. Type "System" in your Start Menu, then click on the "Advanced System Settings" option on the right of that window, and you'll see a dialog with a big button at the bottom that says "Environment Variables...", click on it and you'll see all the DOS variables and more, including PATH.

[@ebridgewater]

I Google'd "TBAV" and it instantly bought up a link to Wikiedia's article on ThunderByte Antivirus. Video unnecessary ;)

[@gingernutpreacher]

what is the limit of basic given a good enough processor speed could you wright halo in basic?

[@logansorenssen]

Yes, but you'd probably have to do a bunch of cruft in assembly, which would defeat a lot of the purpose of even trying. That said, if your compiler is good, BASIC is not necessarily any heavier than C. There are, of course, better tools for the job: Python comes to mind.

[@TheWeepingCorpse]

gingernutpreacher print "halo world".

[@KuraIthys]

If your basic compiler is good enough, probably pretty much anything you could think of honestly. It might not be the most efficient thing to use for any given task, but you could certainly do it. Microsoft has had wrappers for using DirectX in Visual Basic for quite a while... Easier than writing a game in Java in the early days before there were any proper graphics libraries for it, anyway. XD (and yes, before anyone asks, there ARE compiled versions of Basic)

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

Basic is Turing complete, so you could theoretically make anything.

[@shamrice]

I'm surprised you don't like File Manager. It's a pretty good File Manager (pun intended) utility. Not sure why you didn't maximize the inner window. That makes things stupid annoying to deal with unless you have multiple going on.

[@ninjamaster3453]

so what was the first virus you ever had or caught ? how much damage did it do?

[@Nostalgianerd]

I don't think my computer was ever actually infected with a virus (that I was aware of anyway).

[@isaiahash9697]

sounds like a commodore 64 :D

[@jackandersen8280]

My very first AV 😉

[@mibri]

prefab sprout!

[@furydeath]

i just keep thinking of the strong bad eps with the virus now...42000 that is not a small number :|

[@johneygd]

Nice.

[@robot797]

why is my backname between the files

[@no-defun-allowed]

cat pk1.tar.Z pk2.tar.Z > pk.tar.Z (smug bearded Ritchie goes here)

[@garyburchgb]

haha, yep age and alcohol would help to disperse the knowledge you once had. I reckon I'd be lost in dos nowadays!

[@Nostalgianerd]

I think I lost 90% of my school knowledge through alcohol, and the other 10% through attempting to configure MS-DOS memory allocation.

[@rbbm454]

Loadhigh....devicehigh..those were the days.....

[@garyburchgb]

I sadly threw away all my floppies, i do look at these videos and wonder what would have been on all of mine!

[@numeric.alphabet]

21k Secara bukan tutupnya 1st boot DVD-ROM as is..

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

lol, if you found a disk of mine from back in the day that said "stuff" on it. You might want to not have kids in the room.

[@CSIG1001]

I got a big helmet on my disck

[@mickles1975]

Physical save icons.

[@chatboxguy3363]

Yeah, I had a freind who had bad site, so I redid his Windows 7 with a similar scheme. You can do it to Windows 7 but oh my gosh, threes a lot of work to creating a profile scheme. It takes approximately 2 to 3 hours. Trust me, GO THREW and SELECT COLORS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, You wont like the results because the list of schemes for selectable icons has grown.

[@TikiShootah]

note! note! note! note! lol get dat refund, for devs not supporting the software

[@JoelWilsonthelittlen]

remember bootjunkie

[@SteveMacSticky]

Why do you have only 517000 followers?

[@dillbourne]

I'm sure this is said many times per video, but I thought I'd add in my two cents: NNNEEEERRRRRDDDD!!!! It's cool though :)

[@Luix]

I rember anywhere antivirus

[@numeric.alphabet]

10k Coba bayang pun install Os

[@dr.trichome6419]

Tbag.zip

[@nice8780]

LAST.

[@chatboxguy3363]

You would use bench sync change the program rate of running sync time so your computer would RUN as a older computer so if you were trying to run a out of date program and it just runs like a thunder cannon like a racing game. And the trees just fly by like wooden waves, you would change the sync time of your computer to drag it down before running the program.

[@TheDarkApprentice100]

y

[@u0aol1]

Didn't your girlfriend ever tell you not to play with your floppy?

[@mariannmariann2052]

3:19 Troom Troom intro!!!!!

[@chatboxguy3363]

If you tend to try to get your hands on old technology you should keep teabag because who knows you might find a old virus. LOL

[@johnpsy4129]

first (sorta)

[@pleasureincontempt3645]

I hate this eventhough I can’t look away. Might share this with my dad if I’m feeling hot or drunk enough. In all reality; I owe him a lot. Making me understand is only so far part of his legacy and I’ll always do it for him as we continue to get older w/ dosbox.

[@killdeer]

Wot is on me Disk?