Comment on Anon finds a flashdrive

Estiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why aren’t there viruses like this? Everyone wants to hurt your computer. Do something dumb like that.

  Or a screamer virus. That could bring the world to its knees.

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  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with “I broughted you a pwesent ^w^” energy.

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    • Iloveyurianime@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would be far more destructive on first world countries than third world countries

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Love it.

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There used to be a shitton of silly viruses back in the day.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The “you are an idiot” one with the pop-up that runs away from your mouse cursor was hilarious.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wrote a “virus” in college, which basically:

    1. took a screenshot of the entire desktop
    2. displayed screenshot full-screen on top of other windows
    3. would only go away if you typed “@sugar_in_your_tea pwned me” or something

    Oh, and it started on startup, so rebooting wouldn’t fix it. :)

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    • ma1w4re@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bro I was thinking of this EXACT idea around the time you sent this message, how many more evidence do I need to conclude that this world is a simulation 💀💀

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    • savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did one similar! Used autohotkey to hide the task bar at random intervals and pop up a warning that said “system out of memory”. Only way to get it back was autohotkey or a reboot. It would restart daily and on login so it would keep happening. And I hid it as “Nvidia game scanner service.exe” in the Nvidia bloatware folder so it looked innocent. Had a good laugh about that one

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  • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think that’s because most viruses aren’t made for fun but for a specific reason (i.e to steal money from someone’s computer).

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  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about one that jumpscares you. Or replaces windows with Linux

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’d be hilarious lmao. Just a “windows is updating” progress bar while in the background it installs Mint, complete with transferring users/passwords, then “rebooting…” BAM Mint.

      Idk how possible that’d be but a man can dream.

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      • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        previous license key invalidated, now you’ll see what’s the REAL ransomware ;)

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    • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      are you referring to a gnu system?

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      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No no, I’m talking alpine Linux

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  • MHanak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    May i point you to a thing i’ve once made:

    github.com/MHanak1/pierogi-rust

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  • ma1w4re@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for an idea

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