I remember having an old computer, no Internet access at all. But somehow, a game that my mom bought me had a virus, which infected every single EXE in my hard drive.
I lost a couple of good programs that came with that PC (it was pre-owned).
Next, I got that weird virus that was supposed to reboot your computer in one minute, when you connected to the Internet (this was in my laptop) and disallow copy-pasting, among other stuff. The thing is, the countdown always froze and I managed to download a removal tool without having to go to a cyber.
Yeah, and I used to get tons of spyware when I was n00b(er)...