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Check Scammer Number Free Online

A smartphone with a red warning shield over an unknown caller number, checked with a magnifying glass.

Scam Alert is a free tool from Talha M Blog. Type any unknown number, see if people have reported it as a scam, and report scammers yourself with proof.

11:20 PM PKT 4 min read

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Cabir Was First Phone Worm

An illustration of a tiny glowing worm travelling through bright blue wireless waves between two chunky 2004 mobile phones with small antennas.

In 2004 a tiny worm named Cabir learned to hop between mobile phones by Bluetooth, proving for the first time that the phone in your pocket could catch a virus.

11:10 PM PKT 8 min read

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Good Worm That Fixed Computers

An illustration of a friendly glowing green worm wearing a small medic cap, patching a broken computer with bandages of light while traffic jams of glowing data pile up behind it.

In August 2003 the Welchia worm broke into unpatched computers through the same hole as the Blaster worm — then deleted Blaster, tried to install Microsoft's patch, and removed itself.

11:00 PM PKT 8 min read

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Cascade Made Letters Fall Down

An illustration of an old green-screen monitor where the letters are sliding down the screen and piling up like sand at the bottom.

The Cascade virus did not delete or steal anything — it simply made the letters on people's screens slide down and pile up like falling rain.

10:50 PM PKT 8 min read

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Happy99 Sent Fireworks By Email

An illustration of a night sky full of fireworks shaped like email envelopes above long rows of glowing 1999 desktop computers.

Happy99 was a cheerful email worm that showed a fireworks display while secretly mailing itself to everyone its victim wrote to.

10:40 PM PKT 9 min read

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Stoned Virus Flashed Funny Message

An illustration of a chunky 1988 home computer at boot with a glowing speech bubble of cheerful static above it, floppy disks scattered on the desk.

A cheeky one-line joke hidden in floppy disks by an unknown prankster became one of the most common sights on computer screens of its era.

10:30 PM PKT 8 min read

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Virus That Struck Friday 13th

An illustration of a huge calendar page with FRIDAY 13 circled in glowing red, program files dissolving into pixels beneath it.

The Jerusalem virus hid inside ordinary programs for months and waited for one date on the calendar before deleting every program its victims tried to run.

10:20 PM PKT 9 min read

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First Virus On Floppy Disks

An illustration of a giant floppy disk flying like a friendly flying saucer between chunky 1982 home computers with green glowing screens.

A 15-year-old's harmless joke called Elk Cloner became the first computer virus to spread in the wild, riding from friend to friend on borrowed game disks.

10:00 PM PKT 9 min read

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First PC Virus From Lahore

An illustration of a cozy 1986 computer room in Lahore with mosque domes on the skyline at dusk seen through the window, and one glowing floppy disk rising like a small star.

In 1986 two brothers in a small Lahore computer shop created Brain, the first IBM PC virus — and signed their real names and phone numbers inside it.

9:50 PM PKT 9 min read