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Tellemurius

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Re: Why is malware created in the first place!
« Reply #30 on: November 26, 2013, 02:04:28 pm »

god i love adwCleaner, grabbed that on first release and fell in love, threw like 60 bucks at the devs :P so much worth it.

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Re: Why is malware created in the first place!
« Reply #31 on: December 01, 2013, 11:08:34 am »

Some people are just trolls really....
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miauw62

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Re: Why is malware created in the first place!
« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2013, 03:21:00 pm »

For Conduit, your best guess is HijackThis and SUPERAntiSpyware. Also, check your browser extensions/addons.
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Re: Why is malware created in the first place!
« Reply #33 on: December 03, 2013, 02:57:42 am »

What would make a good virus would be a self-replicating evolving one that starts off as innocuous and low-class, but is actually more a ghestalt virus. It would be slowly introduced and looked upon as a minor threat, until all it's parts are eventually collected, and through it's code it checks itself to make sure the whole team is on the same machine (or in more elaborate cases, server/network, on separate machines; all files disguised as readme.txt files (have fun finding them all)), and activates, making itself a major problem quickly. Upon activation, it writes a startup full-clean format script on all drives, reserving C: for last, and it does it in complete silence, only to issue a loud buzzing once it starts formatting out the System drive while overclocking all the cards and HDDs installed beyond capacity (not just wiping out the HDDs, but also melting all the parts of the servers and computers, or at least, shorting out the circuit, and frying some of the machines physically).

If you want to destroy someone's machine and livelihood, be thorough about it, but stealthy. And with NSA watchdogs out and about collecting said information, and gathering said files...

There's probably a way to delete all files named "readme" or whatever.
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Re: Why is malware created in the first place!
« Reply #34 on: December 03, 2013, 02:59:54 am »

What would make a good virus would be a self-replicating evolving one that starts off as innocuous and low-class, but is actually more a ghestalt virus. It would be slowly introduced and looked upon as a minor threat, until all it's parts are eventually collected, and through it's code it checks itself to make sure the whole team is on the same machine (or in more elaborate cases, server/network, on separate machines; all files disguised as readme.txt files (have fun finding them all)), and activates, making itself a major problem quickly. Upon activation, it writes a startup full-clean format script on all drives, reserving C: for last, and it does it in complete silence, only to issue a loud buzzing once it starts formatting out the System drive while overclocking all the cards and HDDs installed beyond capacity (not just wiping out the HDDs, but also melting all the parts of the servers and computers, or at least, shorting out the circuit, and frying some of the machines physically).

If you want to destroy someone's machine and livelihood, be thorough about it, but stealthy. And with NSA watchdogs out and about collecting said information, and gathering said files...

There's probably a way to delete all files named "readme" or whatever.

* LordSlowpoke scratches their head.

Uhh... in a root directory, del [filename] /s. I think. Swap the flags if it doesn't work. You don't even need /a I think.
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