Fourty days later, Anon finds that his entire computer file system has been replaced with pics of Morgan Freeman
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.
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.
The "you are an idiot" one with the pop-up that runs away from your mouse cursor was hilarious.
I wrote a "virus" in college, which basically:
Oh, and it started on startup, so rebooting wouldn't fix it. :)
I did one similar! Used autohotkey to hide the task bar at random intervals and pop up a warning that said "system out of memory". Only way to get it back was autohotkey or a reboot. It would restart daily and on login so it would keep happening. And I hid it as "Nvidia game scanner service.exe" in the Nvidia bloatware folder so it looked innocent. Had a good laugh about that one
bro I was thinking of this EXACT idea around the time you sent this message, how many more evidence do I need to conclude that this world is a simulation 💀💀
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).
That'd be hilarious lmao. Just a "windows is updating" progress bar while in the background it installs Mint, complete with transferring users/passwords, then "rebooting..." BAM Mint.
Idk how possible that'd be but a man can dream.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Researching the Zodiac killer and the Mansons has left me wanting to start a new countercultural movement. Just, you know, with less killing. ... At least a little bit less killing.