Anon downloads a game

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When you’re white hat, but you feel a little silly sometimes

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  • Senseless@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Chaotic good.

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• jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remembered back in the day, there was a virus where a small cat appeared on the screen and chase your mouse cursor. If it caught your mouse cursor, the computer would crash. It did no other damage. It was great fun.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sounds like a puzzle in Mega Man Battle Network

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  looks in Task Manager

  “What the hell is ‘suspicious.exe?’”

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or what the shit is syssrv32.exe?

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Congratulations you have successfully identified the ransomware in this training exercise.

  This experience brought to you by PwnMe

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oh man. back in school we made a lot of dumb shit like this. friend got a box of 128mb usb sticks with erroneous branding and we put autorun ‘viruses’ that just spammed popups, opened the cd drive, played weird sounds, etc.

  same day as we left them in various places in the school there was an announcement not to use “fake usb sticks” found in the building because they have viruses

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Were you vacationing in Iran in 2008-09 by any chance?

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    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Funny little viruses like playing sounds, opening CD drives, and dismantling the industrial infrastructure of a nations nuclear program.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t understand this reference I’m stux

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wrote one in VB class that would play the system beep sound in a loop. The computers were so shitty that that would overheat them in a few seconds as they screamed.

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You tortured the computers to death

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• jodanlime@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Welcome to the botnet!

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  MakeThemShitBrixx.exe
  

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• Jeraxus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I can’t tell if it’s more evil than genious or genious than evil.

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• Superheavy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anon just started mining crypto.

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These days this should not be an issue for emulation, but unfortunately it is since the solution takes a small amount of education, and because there are no legal, official places to buy roms other than the rare packaged emulator re-release that some companies make.

  I’d guess most people here already know how to verify a checksum, but the average computer user does not. It’s a skill that should be taught in schools.

  But roms don’t have an official distribution channel, so to know that one is good, you have to rely on community projects like Redump and No-Intro. Compare your hashes to theirs, and you should be good. A tl;dr: just do a search of “myrient”, as that’s the most recommended place to get correct roms these days.

  There are practical purposes beyond avoiding malware too. The RetroAchievements project makes it possible for people to earn achievements in emulators, but for it to work properly you need to use exactly the right versions of a rom that each game supports. RA relies heavily on RetroArch, and RetroArch uses it’s own method for hash verification, so here’s a guide for getting started with that.

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a good warning (you hope). You clearly grabbed shady software. If you’re lucky it’s not malicious, this time.

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