Everything we learned about computer viruses from ’90s films

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If you know how to protect your mainframe from the backdoor trojan worm that’s duplicated the virus code malware drive in the reboot server, uh, code, then this article isn’t for you. If it sounds made up and like a movie script from the ’90s, then keep reading unless you want your identity stolen and used on the dark web to buy caviar and rhino horn.

Unless you can type as well as the guy below (a government official in the original 1995 film Ghost in the Shell), or you’ve already got a cybersecurity solution like Bitdefender set up, then the world of computer viruses and hacking can be real confusing — but important to know. Read more…

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