The most extreme thing that happened to me regarding viruses lately is also related to USB Flash. At the university, I went to the first floor to print some stuff.
Everything was fine - got my "toilet paper" and my stick back, but when I went home and inserted the USB in my PC - it was there, and you didn't even have to look hard, you could tell by the fake jpeg named "sexy" and the fake video titled "porn". As soon as it autoplayed, the virus activated and started to download crap from the internet and corrupt my existing files. Antivirus detected a couple of thousands of infections.
My PC is clean now, but the legacy of that virus lives on, as I am still unable to fix the Internet Connection, along other smaller system problems. Good thing I had another XP installed on the same PC...
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