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[โ€“] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There were also bots in games which ruined things for the real players.. and chat bots that tried to get you to download/install software which was actually a virus. Oh and tons of viruses back then, nothing like today.

[โ€“] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Bots in games...like aimbots...I don't remember being a serious problem. I played a shit ton of Quake and Quake 2 online. Maybe it was a big problem in other games, but I never noticed it.

Yeah there were lots of viruses, but McAfee was a decent program, and they had full versions of their software on their own FTP server that literally everybody knew the password to.