• Estiar@sh.itjust.works
    136·
    3 个月前

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

    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
      81·
      3 个月前

      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.

    • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
      283·
      3 个月前

      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
      23·
      3 个月前

      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

    • AniviaDeutsch
      111·
      3 个月前

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

        • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
          74·
          3 个月前

          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@fedia.io
            4·
            3 个月前

            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@aussie.zone
              9·
              3 个月前

              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.

                • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
                  6·
                  3 个月前

                  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@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                3 个月前

                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.

  • sheepishly@fedia.io
    15·
    3 个月前

    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.