Comment on Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone
Alteon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Remember kids, don’t ever plug something in to your computer that you don’t trust or are unsure about. Picking up flashdrive off the street and plugging them in is one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer.
hoch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Igloojoe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Theres also usb drives that are designed to short circuit your computer. Frying the motherboard.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
USB Killers are expensive though. No one’s intentionally ditching those for randos to find
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 months ago
Are they? I thought they were basically just a few capacitors hooked up wrong to a USB port.
uis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why would they? Simple boost coverter costs about 0.5€.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer
Only if you are the child of an Iran nuclear engineer. (cough stuxnet cough. )
If not, visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.
I did that once. Now it burns when IP.
jaybone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you ever coming back with those cigarettes?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s also the easiest way to distribute malware
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Disconnect storage, disconnect network peripherals, boot live CD, profit?
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
But FREE Robux. LOL don’t plug in stuff
TurdMongler@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Easiest? Whut? Hold my beer 🤣
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That’s why I take mine in to work to plug in.
thirdmouse@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
to a coworker’s laptop.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gotta test it on the expendable company network before you take it home.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Previous work got USB sent to them via post and they had to access the data on this drives. These drives came from end customers, so they had two computers specifically for the purpose of retrieving images from the USB sticks and burning them on CDs.