The harddisk noise of ancient times could also be used to detect vira! My PC once got infected because I clicked on a "PDF" file (with lots of spaces and a trailing ".exe" extension) in a mail. Immediately, I could hear that something was VERY wrong because the harddisk got VERY busy so I forcefully powered off the system, downloaded an ISO image to scan the system for viruses, burned it to a CD (on another system), and then scanned my primary system. Hundreds of executables had been infected, but I had been fast enough that the system as such was clean; it was only stuff in my CMD.EXE PATH that had been infected, so I needed to remove, redownload, and reinstall the tools I used as a software developer. I agree wholeheartedly that we users have lost sense of what's going on nowadays.
Just heard your blog from the BSDNow podcast. Much love for GKrellM 👍
You can get your HDD sounds back. Go on github and search for "hdd_sound" and you will find my little project. It's for Linux only, though.
The harddisk noise of ancient times could also be used to detect vira! My PC once got infected because I clicked on a "PDF" file (with lots of spaces and a trailing ".exe" extension) in a mail. Immediately, I could hear that something was VERY wrong because the harddisk got VERY busy so I forcefully powered off the system, downloaded an ISO image to scan the system for viruses, burned it to a CD (on another system), and then scanned my primary system. Hundreds of executables had been infected, but I had been fast enough that the system as such was clean; it was only stuff in my CMD.EXE PATH that had been infected, so I needed to remove, redownload, and reinstall the tools I used as a software developer. I agree wholeheartedly that we users have lost sense of what's going on nowadays.