Dabbled within the Cornerstones

There are certain things you get that might affect your computer negatively, either things that take up alot of storage just to even work, or just malware in general. For me, it was a malware, but it was something that just I just didn’t expect to be formatted in. Sometimes you get malware from simple applications like .EXE files, sometimes you get zipbombs which brick your computer. For me, I got a virus from a wallpaper. You heard me, a wall paper. It sounds stupid, yes I know, but sometimes viruses come in the forms you don’t expect.
I was browsing throughout the web one day, before stumbling across a somewhat shady website. This website in particular looked like one of those shock websites, but formatted to host art of all kinds. You can tell where this was going, and as I scouring through the website looking for actual art I could use.. I happened to find this art of this character named “Pibby”, and looked cute enough to use as a wallpaper. It was her staring at the screen, with a pretty wide looking grin on her face.
Once I tried to put the image onto my wallpaper, my antivirus software told me that I had a suspicious application open and asked me if I should delete it or not. I naively said that there was no issue and continued the process, and once I got it up. Things began to.. open, to any application I opened. Every single website I opened that this dilapidated look to it, as if it was abandoned. Every text infront of my screen me was garbled, similarly to that weird glitch text that people use. Every image up to when I downloaded the wallpaper where it had a character would either be coated in black smudges and had these unnerving white eyes, or would have them stare at the screen with these big ass grins on their face. With constricted pupils and almost forced upon grins.
That wasn’t even the weirdest part about all of this, shit was weirder and frankly more disturbing when I opened up games to play. Every single game I opened 25 minutes later would grow increasingly more dysfunctional, collision breaking and etcetera. Not before the game is invaded by this.. blackish.. sludge, looking like a particular smudge like glitch. No matter what character I used, it was only catch up. And it turned the character I was playing as into Zombie like husks, some of them looking the same but with whited out or blotched out eyes, some skinnier and more mangled, and some.. more incomprehensible and more twisted.
At that point, I tried to get rid of the wallpaper. And for some damn reason it couldn’t be removed, even when I deleted the main file itself. It still just kept being my wallpaper, I just wanted a cool looking wallpaper, not a damn virus that is taking over my PC. I later went to bed, frustrated and angry. I just couldn’t take it anymore and planned on getting a specialist to look at the computer tomorrow, and was just plain disappointed about how this all turned out. Was it.. visually and digitally infecting my computer? What the fuck did I download!?
Later that night, I woke up due to a noise coming from the computer. Which was turned off, I got up, still a bit frustrated and looked at the computer. And at that exact moment, I was jolted awake by a sight. A sight I can never unsee.
The same character from the wallpaper was staring at me, looking disheveled and messy. It felt like I was in a weird dream, an unnerving feeling I couldn’t describe even if I had the chance. Until she spoke, with a choked up voice.
”Please, listen to me.”
”It’s been too much for me to handle alone, I-I just want to go home! C-Can you hear me? I-I can see you, please a-answer me! I don’t want to be here anymore, I don’t wanna be scared anymore! P-Please! PLEASE HELP ME! I DONT HAVE MUCH TIME!.. PLEASE!!.. p-please..”
The more the character spoke, the more injuries start to tear into her body. Seemingly out of nowhere, making sickening crunches that made me nauseous. The worst of it was one of the scars going over her eye, causing it to redden like a ripe tomato. An endless stream of blood began to float down her face, some blood leaking from her remaining eye and mouth as she began to decay. Then almost immediately after the scar folds over her eye.. she says one last thing.
”Please… let this be a bad dream…”
The background began to transform into flashes of the assortment of black and whatever color is mixed in, as she just stood there. The creepiest thing about it wasn’t her speech, no no no.. it was the fucking emoji forming on her face, having been stretched and flickered onto her face. Giving an almost creepy grin, the worst thing about it was the eyes peering from the actual eyes, making it more ‘uncanny’ and more unsettling as I stared at it. Not before long, I shut down the PC as fast I as could after just staring at it for god knows all long. Maybe 20 seconds? I have no damn idea why I just stared at it so long, and just sat there on the floor. I eventually dozed off, and woke up at 11:00 in the morning.
After a little while, I eventually got enough rest to stand up and look at the computer. I turned on the computer, and was greeted with a BSOD Screen. A custom one, with that same character staring at the screen next to the words displayed. I wasn’t furious, but I wasn’t saddened either. It was a mild shock, with a bit of just despondency.
I later called the specialist, and told him what was wrong. I excluded the part of the night I had, because I didn’t think anyone would believe me if I said this. When he came, he was shocked to see the screen. I could’ve sworn that his eyes were widen to the point where they were probably easy to fish out. It took about an hour for him to figure out the problem, and told me that I had gotten some kind of virus, which broke the computer and rearranged code between applications. He told me that I needed a new computer since he had never faced a problem like this before in his entire life. However, he managed to open up the computer itself. But what he was greeted with, it made him scream. And as I ran to him, as I understood why.
Whatever the hell it meant was up for questioning, wondering what the hell I downloaded on my computer for this to happen to it. He was still pretty shaken up from the jumpscare he had because of the single framed image. He told me that I really needed an antivirus for just incase if this happens again and that the computer is still repairable in this state. Whatever it was, it gave me more questions than answers.
And frankly, I don’t wanna know. Not now, not here.
Category:Computers and Internet
Category:Viruses
Category:Malware
Category:Pibby
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