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javasux ,

Why did the folder have a file extension

ryannathans ,

Why not?

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

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

schnurrito ,

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

SirDerpy , (edited )

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.

Jakeroxs ,

Understood.iso

Revan343 ,

Well there’s always self-executing archives

lud ,

Self-sxtracting*

Bonsoir ,

Because there’s nothing to prevent it.

sheepishly ,

I have many a time been tempted to buy a bunch of cheap flashdrives, fill them with weird shit and just leave them in places.

Estiar ,

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

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ma1w4re ,

Thanks for an idea

HakFoo ,

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.

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

Love it.

Iloveyurianime ,

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

MHanak ,

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

github.com/MHanak1/pierogi-rust

RmDebArc_5 ,
@RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

Klear ,

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

Karyoplasma ,

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

SeekPie ,

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).

sugar_in_your_tea ,

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. :)

Ilovethebomb ,

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

Anivia ,

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

Ilovethebomb ,

How many people have one of those floating around?

Robust_Mirror ,

Average person? Probably not many. But it’s also not some expensive, rare, hard to have thing. I have several raspberry pi’s that could easily serve the purpose by just not connecting a new image to a network.

brunchyvirus ,

Yeah the cheapest way, too bad the rpi 4/5 and future versions make it possible to write to the eeprom. Atleast it sounds like the newer ones have a way to make it write protected via a jumper or something.

Robust_Mirror ,

Sure, but I mean the chances of someone creating a virus specifically to run when plugged into a pi running pi OS or other Linux os with the purpose of attacking the eeprom, delivered by dropping usb sticks in public is so ridiculously small it has to be functionally non existent.

sneezycat ,
@sneezycat@sopuli.xyz avatar

Could be a USB killer, it’ll fry your PC no matter what it’s running.

Robust_Mirror ,

True, you could probably solve that by breaking the casing off first if you’re insistent on trying it. They don’t look like a normal usb stick on the inside. Also I’d imagine it isn’t really feasible to just go dropping them around but maybe you can get them cheap enough somewhere.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, not sure why you’d piss off random people with that, you’d be much better off doing some kind of ransomware attack.

Ilovethebomb ,

That’s also what I was originally thinking about.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I’d honestly just run it on my Linux laptop with the network disabled. It’s old, so if it gets wrecked, I’m really not out much. And the risk of someone bothering to target Linux is incredibly small, so I’m comfortable with the risk.

Mango ,

Surely lots. There are dramatically more phones on the planet than people.

superkret ,

Does Morgan Freeman run on Wine?

Trail ,

Worked for me on glorious egg roll latest.

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

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

willya ,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

And their identity everywhere compromised.

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