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"You are an Idiot" also known as "Offiz"[1] or "Trojan.JS.YouAreAnIdiot" was a trojan made sometime in 2002.

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TV 1. History

2. Behavior
VIDEO 3. Removal

4. Windows application
WIKIS
5. Other variants

5.1. Browser Bomb

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WIKI 5.2. Last Measure
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5.3. Soft Measure

5.4. Reath

5.5. You Are an Idiot 2.0

6. .cc
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6.1. Version 1.1

6.2. Version 1.4

7. Trivia

8. Gallery

9. References

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History 9 hours ago 9 hours ago

The earliest confirmed existence of the trojan is on the site "youdonotknowwhoiam.org"[2] dating back to
November 2002 according to the Wayback Machine. An earlier version of the site embedded "youdont.swf"[3].

[4]
New images
The original site, youdonotknowwhoiam.org has since turned into a pornography portal .
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A remix of the Flash animation was posted onto YouTube by oniku1234 on September 29th, 2006 . The trojan [5] images on this wiki
gained more attraction when Joel, who is apart of the Vinesauce streaming group, mentioned the site on one of
his streams. < >

See all images...

Behavior
The trojan immediately displayed a flash animation[6] called "youare.swf"
immediately upon visiting the site, which featured a flashing black-and-white
screen with three smiling faces with a voice singing "You are an idiot, Microsoft Social Links
hahahahaha!". It opened several browser windows containing the same content
with a JavaScript function named procreate. The "playBall" function helped make
the windows bounce around the screen.
A slowed-down GIF version of
the flash animation.
The title of the page was "You are an idiot!". If the user pressed Alt+F4, the Ctrl
key, or the Del key, it would display a alert containing the same exact text as the page title.

Popular Pages
Additionally, the trojan checked if the browser was Internet Explorer and checked if the version was greater than
or equal to 4. If both conditions were met, it would bookmark the page as "Idiot!". Some variants use the Flash List of Microsoft Windows
versions
animation to open pop-ups.

Removal Microsoft PowerPoint

The trojan can easily be removed by opening Task Manager (via the search bar or Win+R via typing "taskmgr.exe")
and terminating or killing the proccess. Additionally, you can right click the Flash file and uncheck Play if the Windows 11
variant uses Flash to open popups.

List of Microsoft products

Windows application
There exists a Windows application version where it is disguised as Microsoft Word 2007. However, upon opening
it, the same flash animation pops up with rainbow text below saying "Are You An Idiot?" and three options which Windows 10 version history

are "No, I'm not.", "I don't know =[" and "Yes, I am."

Clicking any of the options results in a pop up saying "Oh.. I think you are an idiot. XD" followed by multiple
popups with the same GIF. Audio of the remix by oniku1234 also plays. Discussions Activity

Do you like the new msn logo?

Other variants Levi Callion • 9 hours ago

Which is worse?
Due to it being easy to copy and the source code released, many variants exist.
DanielC4074 • 14 hours ago

Why people are still using Windows 10?

Browser Bomb
Mr.Follow • 14 hours ago

Browser Bomb is a variant of Offiz which replaces the animation with flashing images with the audio replaced with
can we please not have articles on obscure xb…
a chiptune[7]. Mr.Follow • 15 hours ago

The end of my laptop.

Last Measure KennyAndGoorieEnjoyer • 3 days ago

Last Measure is a variant of Offiz made by the trolling group GNAA made in 2003, which instead spams shock
images and has a stock sound effect of a man screaming that they were looking at pornographic content. In future
version, it would get the user's clipboard data. It would also check if the victim's operating system was macOS.

Many versions exist such as "Last Measure Live" and "Last Measure Unified-X"[8]. The variant always had active
development until 2010.

Soft Measure
Soft Measure is a variant of Last Measure which would have the same exact scripts, but the shock images are
replaced with stuffed animals, along with an ASCII art of a teddy bear with a sound effect of a man saying "Hey,
with American Online, I can just point, and click!" instead of the previous sound effect[9].

Reath
Reath is a variant of Offiz which would have the same exact scripts, animated the title of the page, blocked inspect
element and made the GIF on the page heavier. The variant was created on May 30th, 2020.

You Are an Idiot 2.0

You Are an Idiot 2.0 is a variant of You Are an Idiot created by
ComputerVirusWatch made in 2013 with the purpose to showcase the malware
with the same scripts. A new function was added, which instead checks if the
version is lower than 6.0. If the condition was met, the webpage would be set to
the website[10].

You Are an Idiot 2.0 in action.

.cc
A remake of the trojan that had the .cc TLD was created by malware enthusiast and software engineer
Enderman[11]. Originally, the site was a mirror of youareanidiot.org, another mirror of the trojan. The source code
of the site is publicly available on GitHub.

Version 1.1
Version 1.1, the remake made by Enderman introduced new developments such as it embedding a .mp4 and .mp3
files instead of a .swf file, a mute/unmute button, a link to the Flash version and another link to a YouTube video
about the trojan itself. It was made to comply with strict browser policies. A comment was also made near the
bookmark function:

window.onload = function () {
flagRun = 1;

playBall();
bookmark(); // Internet Explorer only (what a piece of shit)

return true;
}

It would print the message "TimeUpdate invoked." in the browser console. Better code was also introduced.

Version 1.4
Version 1.4 fixed "addEventListener" and beautified the code. It also introduced a
link to the safe version and replaced the .mp4 file with a flashing SVG featuring
the same content, however the .mp3 still stayed. Most parts of the code were

A screenshot of the safe version

seperated into different scripts such as "math.js", "lol.js", "safe.js", "animate.js" and
as of March 9th, 2024. "cleanup.js".

Trivia
The trojan shares functions with another trojan "Last Measure", which would instead spam shock images
made in the same year.
Albino Blacksheep hosts both a harmless version and a now-deleted harmful version.
The trojan does not work on mobile operating systems[12][13] and console web browsers[14]. However, the
only functions that work is opening windows.
The most well known mirror is .org which was hosted by "The ADR and Jazzy" according to the meta tags.
However, in 2013, the virus was removed[citation needed].
Various hoaxes exist, such as the virus supposedly coming back working on mobile operating systems and
the virus supposedly being able to look at emails and the camera roll according to TikTok[15]. Many users
also claimed that it would delete every file from the victim's computer and cause unrepairable damage.
Many opinions have been spreading throughout the internet that the virus came from an adult website[16].
The site was spread through dares, chain letters and forums[16].
Some variants of the trojan were programmed to activate upon startup.

Gallery

.org running on the Nintendo Wii. The Windows application running A example of a hoax.
on Windows 7.

A YouTube comment telling users The Legend of

to not go to the site. YouAreAnIdiot.org
NationSquid's video on the trojan.

References
1. ↑ https://threats.kaspersky.com/en/threat/Trojan.JS.Offiz
2. ↑ According to both sites meta tags and the Wayback Machine.
3. ↑ Due to poor archiving, youdont.swf was not preserved.
4. ↑ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-an-idiot
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRacdl02w4
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pD0B9Rfps DO NOT VISIT THIS IF YOU ARE PRONE TO
EPILEPTIC SEIZURES. Does not contain any malicious scripts.
7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070710201049/albinoblacksheep.com/flash/rgb.php DO NOT VISIT THIS
IF YOU ARE PRONE TO EPILEPTIC SEIZURES. Does not contain any malicious scripts.
8. ↑ https://screamer.wiki/Last_Measure
9. ↑ https://computerpranks.com/media/default.cfm?ItemID=210
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoZxRxx-1s4
11. ↑ Illarionov, Andrey. "The story of YouAreAnIdiot" YouTube, 30 May. 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwxToKjJhE.
12. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwxToKjJhE
13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwxToKjJhE
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwxToKjJhE
15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7pmwpQagQM
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgs2WTlkp5g

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