Anon finds a flashdrive

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• Estiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fourth days later, Anon finds that his entire computer file system has been replaced with pics of Morgan Freeman

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • MHanak@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for an idea

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• javasux@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why did the folder have a file extension

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  • SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s an ancient meme rooted in green text brevity, intentionally misused to form another ancient meme, leading through yet another to a fourth.

    Appending .exe to whatever states that the contextually implied action was performed. For example:

    payday groceries.exe steak on sale dinner.exe

    It’s being used here to obfuscate a folder, as file format was used to obfuscate distribution of the LOIC in the picture of the “It’s dangerous to go alone…” meme.

    But, the cake is a lie. It was Morgan Freeman, all along.

    I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away.

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Understood.iso

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    maybe someone once performed a command like “for all files in this folder without an extension, append .exe to them” and didn’t exclude subdirectories from that

    no nothing similar has ever happened to me, nuh-uh, why would you ever suspect that

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well there’s always self-executing archives

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Self-sxtracting*

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not?

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    • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because that would be a folder extension in case of a folder.

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  • Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because there’s nothing to prevent it.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Either brave or stupid plugging in a random flash drive they found on the street.

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just plug it into an air gapped machine with a Linux live environment

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How many people have one of those floating around?

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does Morgan Freeman run on Wine?

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  • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worked for me on glorious egg roll latest.

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    • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I run Morgan Freeman in VirtualBox just to be on the safe side.

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perfect way to get a nasty virus.

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• willya@lemmyf.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And their identity everywhere compromised.

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