This Powerpuff Girls DVD Had a VIRUS! (DVD Recall)

[@brenlc1412]

“Fun Love Virus” sounds like a very different type of virus that people get in a very different way.

[@patoflamejantetv_ofc]

LOL

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Mojo's behind it😂 I know it is.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

…inserting something into a slot designed for it isn’t much different 😉😎

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

Sedusa virus

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy yep

[@Taneuma_563]

Reminds me of how the Dreamcast version of Atelier Marie contained a really cool screensaver related to the game, but the developer unknowingly had an extremely destructive virus on their computer called Kris, which could destroy your computer and even it's BIOS, on Christmas day of all things. Imagine getting this game from Christmas and unknowingly putting it in your computer...

[@DaGoob-q2f]

KRIS DELTARUNE?!?!

[@psiseven]

​@@DaGoob-q2fKris, I remember you're viruses

[@helioalves8884]

​@@psiseven Excellent comment, no notes.

[@SleepyKonii]

I was literally about to bring this up when I saw this video!

[@noble8dx564]

Merry christmas! your gift is a fun and lovely virus

[@MonadoBoy16]

"Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder!"

[@keithmorrison8373]

Dosent seem like a blunder it could be on purpose

[@CaptainWackier]

Let me ask you a question: Why would a man who wears a shirt that says "GENIUS AT WORK" spend all his time watching a children's cartoon show?

[@kanesmith8271]

@@MonadoBoy16 that Simpsons evil nerd character would be the same type of guy to put a virus in power puff girls dvd 😂😂😂

[@ConnorJG76]

​@@keithmorrison8373boy the joke went right over your head

[@borntoclimb7116]

Same

[@ItsAubreeyy]

3:41 I don't think this virus would affect modern computers, considering how old it is and that it was made for 9X Windows. Windows Defender would probably detect it anyway.

[@borby4584]

I’m pretty sure that some old viruses can still work. It’s just that as you said, Windows Defender can tell that it’s a virus long before it can do anything. You’d have to deliberately allow it to infect your computer at that point

[@UVAmatsuo]

Surprisingly, a LOT of old viruses are still bad for modern PCs.

[@ItsAubreeyy]

@@borby4584im not denying they wont work, but im sure their functionality would be way less destructive than back in 1998

[@Lonewolf_121]

Just tried, doesn't work on windows 10 or 11 even with windows defender turned off, that's no fun

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin2206]

Viruses depend on flaws of the os to work. For the virus to still work, the vulnerabilities would have to still be unpatched

[@larryinc64]

It's kinda ironic the Beatles disc was the one that the original destroyed and replaced with a doppelganger. *If you play the DVD backwards you find the clues to the truth, "turn me on, dead disc".*

[@QwahPG]

@@larryinc64 it really is quite ironic

[@tibby-san]

"Play the DVD backwards"? What do you mean by that?😅

[@Porygonal64]

​@@tibby-sanIts just a joke; in the 70s people thought you could hear satan by playing vinyl records backwards lol

[@Cmdrbzrd]

​Wrong ​@Porygonal64 , It's a reference to the conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney died and was replaced with a lookalike. One supposed piece of proof is the message "turn me on, dead man", which can supposedly be heard by playing Revolution 9 from the White Album backwards.

[@Metal_Maxine]

@@tibby-san The 'message' (Dead man, turn me on) on the Beatles record concerned was meant to prove the Dead Paul theory. Specifically, that Paul was dead (seriously) and replaced by a double (gosh). Other 'proof' was that Paul had no shoes on when walking across Abbey Road (because he was a ghost/angel or maybe the imposter just had different size feet). It was daft.

[@Metal_Maxine]

I love the bit where you used the Dr Mario viruses and then started playing their music in the background.

[@QwahPG]

seeing old style computer viruses along with the original ppg girls on a dvd set in one video truly an amazing discovery to have found all the way back in the 90s

[@malinalungu407]

more like the 2000s, since it was back in 2001

[@aortaplatinum]

Reminds me of the Xenoblade X flash drive that came with the Wii U release as a pre-order bonus with the soundtrack on it, but because it was set up as drive X it caused a TON of issues with Windows

[@lpfan4491]

Plottwist: It was for the lore. The flash drive bug is how the government silenced everyone in the cast who knew the truth of what is going on.

[@bonomagno4]

It actually had pretty insane and disruptive DRM. To prevent the users from ripping the MP3 files from the usb drive to use the soundtrack elsewhere or sharing it online, they went with the nuclear option of allocating a “drive Y” on your pc and extracting the mp3s there to be accessible by an executable in the usb. It also configured this partition to be unaccessible, invisible, and very hard to remove. So entire tutorials had to be created to instruct people on how to access this invisible partition, copy the mp3s from there, and later delete the partition since it could cause issues.

[@aortaplatinum]

@bonomagno4 I'd expect nothing less from the psychopaths at Nintendo

[@meechmushrooms]

This is so funny because a few years ago, I found some kind of Mini-Golf DVD-ROM game in my parents' home office (probably my sister's from college). I inserted it into my (modern?) Windows 7 laptop, and within seconds, my anti-virus software (Microsoft Security Essentials) went *apeshit.* Apparently, it wasn't that uncommon for certain DVD-ROM PC games to ship with some kind of spyware/malware that took advantage of Windows 9x/XP's AutoRun function, and secretly installed itself onto the user's PC in the background. This was the late 90's/early 00's, so software development companies were (arguably) able to get away with a lot more than they are today (the Internet was the Wild Wild West back then!) But was crazy to witness my _modern PC_ recognize (and neutralize!) a threat that was over 20+ years old… that came from a DVD-ROM… of _mini-golf!_ 🤣📀💻⛳️ TL:DR: keep your anti-virus definitions up-to-date, because you never know when a seemingly innocent mini-golf game from 25 years ago might try to AutoRun spyware on your PC! 😂

[@benaubrey2410]

I wonder what those companies were trying to do by distributing viruses.

[@shadowcatgamer2521]

​@@benaubrey2410 Oftentimes they weren't *trying* to, just that the pcs used to develop these softwares were also infected with the malware,, causing it to infect files and then infect other pcs when the files are redistributed. All that could happen without the distributor even knowing about the malware if it was secretive enough.

[@DanielLave25280]

so once again the day is saved thanks to Recalling the DVD Itself

[@Nyrus13]

Fun love virus. What a fitting name for a recalled PPG DVD 💀

[@grimphantom99insaneenderma85]

Especially one that referenced the Beatles considerating a lot of their songs is about love 😂💀

[@teh_supar_hackr]

The most evil Powerpuff Girls villan...an irl virus!

[@philcollinshill2951]

The DVD Powerpuff Bluff from this same era somehow made three of my DVD players stop working. I never tried to use any of the DVD-ROM features in my PC but that disc definitely made three of my family's DVD players skip, crash, and then not be able to read discs after that.

[@JeskidoYT]

A virus for the players instead.

[@MSF2018]

As a physical media enthusiast and somewhat of a Powerpuff Girls myself at 21 years old (being born in 2003), I never knew that computer viruses could even effect DVD discs. Very interesting story and video!

[@QwahPG]

Im only 14 and have missed out on the days of 90s ppg girls being broadcast on the tv truly a great discovery indeed since I only thought computer viruses could only effect other computers with USB drives and stuff

[@Porygonal64]

​@@QwahPGIts all just data at the end of the day

[@AntonYadrov777]

...discs are just digital storage media. You can put whatever on them. A lot of people watched DVDs on their PCs back in the day, usually because they didn't want to spend extra on a DVD player. DVD drives for PCs were cheaper, sometimes quite noticeably.

[@Cmdrbzrd]

They can't, the virus was burned on with the rest of the data.

[@SapphireKnight675]

better question was how did it even get there and how did no one notice

[@TechnicalJimActual]

"Meet the Recalls." There's my easy & obvious joke.

[@eclat4641]

Good joke tho

[@RAZ0RL0PEE]

this reminds me of a sega dreamcast game called "atelier marie" where if you put the CD in your computer for the screensavers you'd get infected with the kriz virus, which *was* a very nasty virus back when the game came out (but is now ineffective to modern computers).

[@shoeboxr]

great video, also "fan favorite among fans" was a funny line

[@bricklock1942]

I recently saw your Toy Story 2 video from a few years ago about a DVD goof, and then I saw a comment talking about this, and then you said that you’d make a video about this in the future during that time. I can’t believe the ODDS of it being YESTERDAY

[@rayphoenix7296]

I wonder if this is where people got the idea that computer software discs bought in stores could contain viruses. I thought it was just hogwash but after seeing this, I wonder if that is why people had that fear.

[@mathew2214]

this is the most significant event that happened that year.

[@lordtony8276]

Sounds like someone accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction.

[@thatguynobodywants3716]

When are they gonna recall the DVD's of the 2016 reboot? It's mere existence is equal if not worse than a computer virus.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

XD

[@SneakyGreninja]

nah

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

Did it have DVDs?

[@thatguynobodywants3716]

@nintendo-relatedchannel5810 Unfortunately

[@seanano2434]

I mean to be fair that Full opening intro is literal fire 🔥

[@jddtrain]

I never saw the DVD version of The Powerpuff Girls: Meet The Beat Alls, but I did see it on VHS that contained the trailer for Scooby Doo and The Cyber Chase in the opening previews which was also released on VHS and DVD the same time during October of 01. Other than that, I just met Tara Strong who was the voice of Bubbles one year ago and I had a great time talking to Tara while she was signing my DVD cover for Scooby Doo On Zombie Island as well as getting my picture taken with her.

[@sisik19]

I think how advanced vanced virus software is nowadays. You would probably be able to play the DVD safely on a PC or a laptop in the antivirus would detect any vowel or or virus

[@kreekkrap]

I had a seizure while reading this.

[@IsaacCosmic]

0:46 Just realized MoJo JoJo’s girlfriend is suppose to be Yoko Ono 🤣

[@daffers2345]

That's why they make the album where it's just screaming. 😆

[@dittm3r]

We aren't allowed monkey parodies of people anymore.

[@spyczech]

The misogynists ruined yoko Ono jokes it's all sigma grindset about how she was bad for him I miss before tik tok decided to hate on yoko

[@dittm3r]

@@spyczech seems like she was always disliked but you're mentioning recent things like "sigma grindset" and tiktok

[@spyczech]

@@dittm3r Yeah I mean it is a big dose of everything old is new again. I think people hated her because she was a woman before too but algorithims made misogyny content hyper marketable

[@wintyrbarnes8533]

"Hey, Hollywood Video? I bought this Power Puff Girls DVD at your Belmont, California store recently* and learned that it was recalled due to a computer virus. Can I still return it for a refund or store credit? Huh? What do you mean, this hasn't been a Hollywood Video in over a decade?!" *20+ years ago

[@BKBluey]

Imagine an episode called "Home Mideo" where the girls discover FunLove on a DVD they bought and decided to fight him with help from the Professor.

[@RandomYoshiYT]

1:26 DOCTOR MARIO MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@TheBechtloff]

Equal Fights is a fantastic episode.

[@KasperskyFan2111]

My older sister used to have an old powder puff girls meet the beat alls dvd about 6 years ago that contained the malware. I actually did a malware analysis on its content, and it appears to have infected files that were powered by adobe flash player, a program that was quite popular at the time. It basically injects a payload onto a windows device using not only a flash exploit but by also spreading the entire flash exe files across the hard drive and operating system. It does seem to affect macOS, but only versions from before macOS el captain’s release in 2015. It also still affects windows 10 to this day. My guess is that the reason that the dvd was infected was probably because the person that was in charge of putting the files on it at Warner bros had an app that used one of those annoying bundlers with those “optional offers”, something that was unfortunately quite common in the late 90s to mid 2010s. And while those adware installers were often used for monetization, they also caused many problems for many computer users, including the spread of malware.

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

There’s some kind of blasphemy with using the reboot with a DVD of the original in the same thumbnail.

[@RandallStevenson]

Reminds me of that awesome time when Sony put rootkits on their earlier released CDs

[@renakunisaki]

But that was on purpose.

[@HelloKitty-x4u6d]

​@@renakunisakithat was an accident.

[@mattmc5069]

I had a dvd lens cleaner with a topless woman on it! There was a video of the beach in a cleaner i bought in 2001. It was intended to adjust your tvs settings like brightness, saturation etc. It was just footage on people on a beach, normal stuff. Then one close up shows a woman on her back with no top on and no censorship of any kind, no blurr no blocks. And the scene is about 30 seconds doesn't even cut off quickly lol

[@BussiDestroyer]

Nice! Id goon to it

[@patoflamejantetv_ofc]

@@BussiDestroyer 💀

[@BussiDestroyer]

@@patoflamejantetv_ofc Im just being honest! Thats based of the manfacturer to include it

[@Dogman2605]

A dvd recall lane Just like Toy Story the ultimate toy box box set!

[@iansweeney9953]

I had no idea that this happened.

[@sophiehanssel2017]

I guess spoofing the Beatles must have caused the computer virus🤯

[@danmulholland1634]

My favorite powerpuff girls episode

[@BBC600]

You could say there was a "bug" on the disc.

[@HuskyDog88]

@@BBC600 B'dum-TISS!

[@grimphantom99insaneenderma85]

"All you need is love" 😂💀

[@Mythical6255]

It’s why I am thankful there is also a VHS release

[@JJohnston4Life]

I always knew this episode would be a fan favorite amongst fans.

[@SnoopygrayHere]

I want someone to put the dvd in their computer and install protogent, hope the person who makes that video doesn’t lost his deeta

[@BKBluey]

I am Proto

[@Porygonal64]

​@@BKBlueyYour security is my moto

[@liplessnavajo4011]

@@BKBlueyhere, have some ram

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

Misread the thumbnail lol, I didn't see the subtitle at first, only the the theater listing and so I thought the DVD was titled "The Powerpuff Girls Beat Ass!" XD

[@mackgordon2117]

Nice story and short. Instant sub

[@dragonfurry69]

"A fan favorite amongst the fans." Mojo Jojo levels of reiteration

[@cjpwolf2436]

This reminds of the Starforce and Sony BMG XCP rootkit scandal.

[@RightBoyKA-POW]

I literally didn't even know this DVD existed.

[@KatyWebb-ph8yn]

This is a story I've honestly never heard of before.

[@skyshunts]

I never knew it had a virus on it probably because I only had the vhs version

[@PaperbackWriter92]

Same. I still have my VHS copy of "Meet the Beat-Alls" because of it's sentimental value so I never knew the DVD would put a virus on your computer. Crazy how it wasn't caught in the first place until Warner Bros were forced to recall the original discs due to the controversy.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Mojo jojo's been quiet when this dropped.😂

[@anthonyvo1963]

“Fan favorite among fans” is the funny line ever made

[@rexquintonchief5666]

That's wildest I didn't even know a Powerpuff Girls DVD movie was from a virus and shit, cuzz Imao 😂💀

[@Lawson578]

Holy crap Lois, this DVD got infected by virus.

[@ishmaboy]

It's 1000% safe to play on modern PCs. As long as you have Windows Defender turned on, anyways. AMSI will pick it up and quarantine instantly

[@DonnieTheGuy]

This reminds me of a variation of the Toy Story 2 DVDs that swapped to High Fidelity a few minutes in

[@Intriga1220]

Dat one? 1:21

[@Fangs_With_Bangs]

That's bad ngl , Oof love ur videos tho keep it up man.

[@STARR503]

"Mojo lennon doesnt exist. He cant hurt you" Mojo lennon:

[@EmperorMathias]

I never even knew about this until right now! Interesting story indeed.

[@JacobKopczyk]

Meet The Beat-Alls was produced in 2000

[@soundspark]

Things like this are why modern Windows versions ask for permission before autoplaying a disc.

[@flowerzforsaturn]

I had this dvd!! My sister and I loved the powerpuff girls and my mom loved the Beatles so we always played that episode. Not sure if I have the virus version since we didn’t have a computer but I think our dvd is too scratched up to even work on a dvd player anymore.

[@byronsmothers8064]

I pulled a double take on that recall date & had to rewind to check what I heard, "December". Hoo-boy!

[@QualityControl2271]

Well, at least Nickelodeon and Paramount home video didn't suffer the "Fun Love Virus" problem on DVD.

[@jeremyhall2727]

The episode with the blonde pro ♀️ ☮️ female warrior was awesome. I loved that character so much.

[@NeonTailzzz]

I HAD THIS AS A KID HOLY SHIT somehow, it NEVER ended up in the computer, only the dvd players we had. holy shit.

[@Zanto1050]

Same thing happened to me with a bionicle cd. It was a promotional cd that came with a deluxe bionicle set. It had stuff such as videos, music and weblinks. Sometime after using it my computer started acting funny. I had no idea official material could have viruses on it. I didn't know how to fix it myself nor did we have a dedicated technician we could call on. Ended up sending it to dell and they fixed it for us.

[@DB87_Official]

If i had a nickle everytime Lane post about a DVD Recall Video,i have two nickles Which is isn't alot but it's wierd that happend twice

[@pastagod2219]

I looked at F-Secure's writeup for FunLove sadly it doesn't have any sort of interesting payload which is very disappointing for a virus with fun in the name all it does is writes the text string "~Fun Loving Criminal~" when it's run in DOS mode

[@aurahoneydew9607]

Video: "a fan favorite, among fans" Me: Checks out🤔

[@synovamusic]

fun love virus looks like LSDJ

[@MrLawyer711]

This kind of reminds me of back in the day I bought a computer game at goodwill (I think Sim Coaster?) and when I put it in I got a pop up that said virus detected. Scared the crap out of young me lol

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Who could have been behind this? Mojo jo jo? Princess morbucks? Gang green gang? Him?

[@ashimochi]

Dude I remember renting this from Blockbuster 😭 good ol times

[@FinnHutcherson]

Wow, and I thought only only pyrite DVDs were infected of a virus.

[@camwha5904]

I feel like any virus for a computer back then (winXP) would be immediately neutralized by modern windows defender. I’d say there’s no worry unless you run it on an old XP machine.

[@Mario583a]

I still say Mojo Jojo created the Fun Love Virus to seek out the Powerpuff Girls.

[@PerryMason123]

"Buy at your own risk" The virus was designed for Windows 9x, there's little guarantee that it would work or, if it did, run its routine on any computer running Windows XP or later due to how those OSes are coded. More modern antiviruses would also catch it much faster than they would in 2001 so there's probably extremely small of a chance that a DVD from 2001 would brick your modern computer.

[@MarkDSnutts]

You sound annoying.

[@vinnietheanimationgod8149]

I have meet the beatalls on VHS and DVD and it's my favorite Powerpuff girls release especially with the Powerpuff girls movie sneak peek right before my favorite episode jewel of the aisle 👍❤️

[@Chimpy1]

I remember when i had windows xp and running into that virus. It was hell, i think i ended up wiping my whole drive cause i got really frustrated. Aaah good times 😅

[@amandastyles-uh6zx]

Thank goodness i have the vhs version ❤

[@jamesborlan2850]

Meet the beat alls is on my top 10 favorite episodes of the ppg They took the most well known villains of different ranks and made them team up to defeat the powerpuf girls And the Beatles metaphor was cleverly handled No offense but I like equal fights since it's a satire on manipulators who don't care about they say other than fake sincerity And bought and scold is a classic I do feel that it would work better as a 2 parter and have the gang greengang deal with princess after their hideout and stuff got stolen because of the anti crime law Great video though

[@untunedguitar45]

Nah, the point when they started making regular half hour episodes is when the show started to suffer

[@jamesborlan2850]

@untunedguitar45 I disagree The powerpuff girls has made some fantastic double episodes in the course of its run

[@Firestar-TV]

Still don't understand why they did DVDs like that. Why not do ones that contain whole or at least half Seasons? Must've been a Pain in the A to collect all Episodes

[@Rafielo]

You must have not been there to experience it so I'll explain... Umm... That's just how that worked really, no one questioned it. Having episodes on video and DVD being released officially was kind of a luxury. They basically we're "best" episode compilations. You'd have to be lucky for your series to be in a DVD to begin with, let alone all the episodes be available. I don't think PPG ever got all its episodes on DVD until the anniversary box set, released around the time where cartoon season sets we're already more normalized.

[@kanesmith8271]

The companies want to make more money, in modern day Japan they sell like 1-2 episodes of anime on blu ray so you can “support the studios” or something around those lines to make the consumers pay more money

[@AntonYadrov777]

@@kanesmith8271 this. A whole damn 12-episode season can fit in FHD with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 on a single BluRay disc.

[@jasonhice]

The main reason is VHS. They had a short limit on how many episodes could be on them. Making a set of VHS tapes for a whole season would have taken a lot of space and have been expensive. Most cartoons and TV shows didn't get full seasons on video in the 90s because of this but frequently got tapes with a few episodes. Usually the first ones or a best of. In the early 2000s they were still releasing these, and because DVDs were becoming popular they released the same videos in that format. By the early 2010s season long DVD sets became the norm. Nowadays releasing only a few episodes is uncommon.

[@jairog2787]

Narrator: one again, the day is saved thanks to... TEAM GOHAN wait who are you guys Gohan(Geo): a new cartoon destined to destroy Ai

[@LiamJohnson-q3u]

This kind of reminds me of Tiger Woods 99 on the original version can Find a file called ZZ dummy. Which actually could play the first pilot of south park

[@DankRedditMemes]

and thats why I immediately disable autoplay on every new Windows install

[@clairestanfield-ui1fg]

first time hearing about this, i did own that dvd at one time. probably still do

[@icecreamhero2375]

You don't like Bought and Sold? That's one of the very best episodes.

[@thomasslone1964]

"My favorite beetles album is their death metal album, beat my meat, by the meatles" - Joel from vine sauce

[@kalalisto]

I still have my OG copy from when I was a kid and now I want to see if it has the virus on it, but im not bout to infect my PC with a 20 year old virus

[@davidholanda1]

1:08 wdym by dud? Equal Rights was like a good episode that comments on toxic feminism

[@yonaguy6978]

Yea i was about to say, i think the guy got the wrong lesson from it

[@justingreene9952]

Ur just a sensitive beta it’s ok

[@JamesRindall]

Theres no such thing as toxic feminism. The episode is questionable and has a lot of flaws for a subject as nuanced and complex as feminism. It wasnt helping anyone. Thats why the writer, Lauren Faust, regrets making it.

[@ArchDeusAirsoftNC]

Or she wanted to fall in line with the current narrative that lacks any and all nuance 🤔😏

[@davidholanda1]

"lack any nuance" have you guys even watched the episode? it's about how girls got gaslighted by the villain that the female demographic are often harmed by men, which led them to be apathetic towards them and go on the way to be mean towards them regardless what do you think the girls' reactions aren't okay or "accurate", keep in mind they're just kids who didn't know any better Miss Bellum had to call to them to talk about this behavior isn't okay and that being like that won't solve the injustice at outside world the lesson is that there's always gonna be social problems in the world, but being aggressive and toxic about won't solve anything the episode might not be perfect, but I can see what they're trying to tell

[@DJcyberslash]

The real question is if the virus is still able to do any damage on a modern machine

[@ForumcoldiArchon]

It is an eternity old virus. Windows defender blocks that one without you even knowing. "At own risk" is kinda redundant unles they use winXP

[@DaturaReapicusJones]

I learned something today

[@artisticangel5795]

I wonder if this "Fun Love Virus" will have any effect on newer game consoles like the PS5? 🤔

[@kyethememer9836]

I have the powerpuff girls complete series DVD boxset.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

A mojo jo jo way of ruining the Powerpuff girls sales 😂

[@ChosenOne41]

I have this DVD, it was probably the first DVD I ever bought. I wonder if my copy has that virus.

[@Arrow-wk5in]

I actually have one of the recalled dvds with the virus on it lol

[@grasraff]

I remember back when my Powerpuff girls dvd broke my ps3 is😂.

[@nathanalcantara7892]

So they were beating them all, even in reality.

[@BIGwillTHEGAME]

KZbin Recommended

[@ajthefunkmonster4767]

I still have this, but I bought it in 2004 from Walmart's $5 bin (anyone remember those?)

[@nickthetrex]

I wish viruses were never a thing.

[@IShy2]

Question number 1: How does this happen Question number 2: How do I fix my brain being broken because it was wondering how this could happen