A laptop containing the six most fearsome viruses on the internet sold for more than a million dollars

This is an old 2008 notebook, a Samsung NC10. Its market value? About $ 40 in used product pages. But this notebook has something different: the six most destructive computer viruses of recent years. For this reason, they managed to sell it for $ 1.34 million.

Does it work for something? This is not very useful for surfing the Internet or playing Fortnite. In fact it's a work of art from Guo O dong, at the request of the cybersecurity company DeepInstick. His particular work is called Persistence of chaos (The persistence of chaos) and is on display in New York, where it was auctioned. The offer started at a million, but quickly exceeded the initial value by more than 30%.

L & # 39; Team has installed six of the most harmful viruses of recent decades: ILOVEYOU, MyDoom, SoBig, WannaCry, DarkTequila and BlackEnergy. It was shown in streaming at the auction. It was lit, but without internet connection. It will come with its power cable but the buyer promised to leave the device unplugged so as not to transmit viruses.

According to the organizers, the work "allows to study malware and allows people interested in the badysis of these programs (or perhaps as part of their work) to access these programs. malicious and badyze their operation. "

The viruses contained in the computer "have caused more than $ 95,000 million in damages, simply because the companies were not prepared for unprecedented attacks," said the company that organized Auction.

On the screen of this notebook, you can see the picture that WannaCry showed when it was done with the control of a computer. What did Guo want to show? According to the artist, his work is a bestiary, a catalog of historical threats.