Why did the folder have a file extension
Anon finds a flashdrive
Submitted 7 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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javasux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 7 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.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 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
Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Well there’s always self-executing archives
lud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Self-sxtracting*
ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Why not?
cheddar@programming.dev 7 months ago
Because that would be a folder extension in case of a folder.
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Because there’s nothing to prevent it.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Either brave or stupid plugging in a random flash drive they found on the street.
Anivia@feddit.org 7 months ago
Just plug it into an air gapped machine with a Linux live environment
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 months ago
How many people have one of those floating around?
superkret@feddit.org 7 months ago
Does Morgan Freeman run on Wine?
Trail@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Worked for me on glorious egg roll latest.
cheddar@programming.dev 7 months ago
I run Morgan Freeman in VirtualBox just to be on the safe side.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Perfect way to get a nasty virus.
willya@lemmyf.uk 7 months ago
And their identity everywhere compromised.
Estiar@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Fourth days later, Anon finds that his entire computer file system has been replaced with pics of Morgan Freeman
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 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.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 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.
Klear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There used to be a shitton of silly viruses back in the day.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I wrote a “virus” in college, which basically:
Oh, and it started on startup, so rebooting wouldn’t fix it. :)
SeekPie@lemm.ee 7 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).
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
How about one that jumpscares you. Or replaces windows with Linux
MHanak@lemmy.world 7 months ago
May i point you to a thing i’ve once made:
github.com/MHanak1/pierogi-rust
ma1w4re@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Thanks for an idea