Ha the good old days! Anyone recall "stories" of disk copy protection doing this? I recall back in the day, rumors c64 copy protection that would do this kind of nefarious stuff 😄 :

Ignore this at your own peril, cautions Vault Corporation Chairman W. Krag Brotby, because if the machine has a hard disk, its entire contents are likely to be erased. Prolok Plus can also implant a "worm" in the system that will cause immediate or subsequent damage to the data or operating system.