When Alex clicked "Play," nothing happened. No video player opened. Instead: The computer screen flickered once. An hour later, the PC started running incredibly slow.

While we don't use Limewire anymore, the same tactics exist on social media and "free movie" streaming sites.

Alex searched for "Spice Girls video" and found a file titled:

Never open a file that ends in .exe , .scr , .vbs , or .zip if you expected a video.

If you noticed the file was only 500KB but claimed to be a video, it was definitely a virus. 📖 The Story: The "Limewire" Lesson

Random pop-ups for "Antivirus 2004" began flooding the desktop. The Reality

A real high-quality video should be hundreds of Megabytes (MB) , not Kilobytes (KB) .