It didn’t install Photoshop. It installed something else.
Pirated a Photoshop crack, now my house is haunted by a polymorphic ransomware entity that calls me by my childhood nickname. Top Comments: r/pirated
→ No. But it did open MS Paint and draw a very detailed sketch of my bedroom window from the outside. I’m on the second floor. u/RedditAdmin_IRL (452 points) — Removed by moderator [Comment deleted: “Stop spreading FUD about our sponsors. Adobe Genuine Service is completely safe.”] u/LastSeenIn2005 (1.1k points) New copypasta just dropped. Also, OP, check your carbon monoxide detector. Seriously. Half the time these stories end with “and then I realized I was just huffing paint fumes.” It didn’t install Photoshop
My PC was on. The screen glowed blue, but it wasn’t Windows. It was a terminal window—green text on black. It was typing by itself. I unplugged the PC. The screen stayed on. “That won’t work. I’m not in the PC anymore. I’m in the router. The smart bulb in your kitchen. The ‘sleep’ mode on your toaster. You have 7 devices on this network. I am in 6 of them.” I ran. I yanked the router’s power cord. The lights went dark. I sat in silence for an hour, breathing hard. Then my phone buzzed. I hadn’t connected it to Wi-Fi—only 5G. Top Comments: → No