The Spider Man Virus, Yeah... People Still Fall for This
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2021
- Surely as we approach 2022 people have learned to read file extensions for a spiderman homecoming torrent and not run random .exe files they found on the Russian side of the internet. Apparently not.
Full blog about the virus with code snippits here.
blog.reasonlabs.com/2021/12/2...
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This is one of the many reasons why Windows hiding certain file extensions by default is dumb. The main reason this works is if the user doesn't change the default they don't see the .exe
exactly
but it looks baaad!
@Bio Emiliano
Imagine thinking a function that is useful _looks bad_
M4Udcl maybe he uses Linux, where file extensions don’t matter that much, thus complaining about windows’ messy bloat
@@bioemiliano switch to linux, way less file extensions 👍
This happened way back when watchdogs was released, the pirated copy had a built in crypto miner... in a game about hacking...
I feel slightly inclined to say fair enough
Based AF
I wouldn't be mad.
I'd be cool with it as long as it gave the appropriate notice. If it does it sneakily, fuck em
I remember hearing it ran at least as good as the official release.
"Totaly not a virus... trust me i'm a dolphin.exe"
Hold up is dolphin emulator malware?
@@thebigboi5357 No.
@@thebigboi5357 yeah but they on about something else
Reminds me of Windows 93
@@ichangedmyhandleagainhahahaha 🤣
"and at age 13 that was not the worst file to get" - that killed me, lol
@@reydgukthewjw8349 gold ol limewire lmao
yeah i laughed hard LOL
me2
Got the Paris Hilton tape off Limewire when I was 13.
I don't gets it,. Someone splain pls?
Hence the reason why the executable bit exists. Letting any file be executable by default is utterly insane.
I hate how windows hides extension by default. It would be less secure. at least in PowerShell you can't execute on same folder without the ./.
But what if I need my .jpg to be able to run with administrator privileges?
@@alexandernyberg8668 Yea, how else are you going to get your jpg file to mine crypto for you?
Me: Noooo you can't just make a text file executable!
chmod: Ha ha linux go brrrr.
@@weakspirit_ what is that for?
The problem is both Windows and Mac wanting to hide file extensions from users for some stupid reason.
chad linux not having extensions at all
It's because they still feel that they own the system, so they hide them because they don't want them modified
DUMB DOWN THE TOOL FOR THE SHEEP
@ladawg81 That is the real reason. Changing the filetype is more possible when that's visible and normal users won't understand that or know how to undo it.
@ladawg81 but there's pop up warning for that, it could be reworked.
When I saw this headline at a glance I somehow thought that they embedded arbitrary code in an mp4 file, the thought that it was literally just a .exe didn't even cross my mind due to how absolutely naive falling for that is. What a world we live in, people's computer literacy is devolving rapidly.
some people just aren't interested in computer that's why they don't bother to extensively learn more about everything about it, like me, i never have a pc, barely ever uses computer but i know for sure i wouldn't fall for this because i've watched and learn from different people just because i'm interested, that's why i watched this channel anyway despite the chances of me using linux on my first computer is zero
Just like vehicles. There are more around but the average level of understanding didn't go up with it.
@@full-timepog6844 but with the internet you can fix almost anything yourself. (almost)
@@lord_khufu You'd have to be VERY stupid to see this as extensive learning.
@@mr.serious707 you just gotta accept some people are babies when it's come to computer man, might be child play to you but difficult for someone to grasp if their only interaction with computers are at school shoving goolge images into powerpoint. But yeah what's the point of justifying these dumbasses who don't know the basic of computer under any circumstances, let us sit back and show them how superior we are to them in the way of computing, as they do the same to us in something they are better at
I like to imagine that there's some company network out there providing some script kiddie money for his body pillow addiction just because a worker wanted to watch spiderman during his lunch break
wtf is a body pillow
@@ararune3734 trust me you don't wanna know that
@@ararune3734 Just a big pillow, like five feet long. You can hug it while you sleep or use it to prop up the head of your mattress or whatever.
It only gets weird if you have an anime girl on the pillowcase. Japan calls that a dakimakura.
@@Sniblet Dakima what
@@ararune3734 a pillow where it has the picture of something (maybe anime characters that you like), and give you a feeling that you kidnapped the character in pillow and you can hug him/her as much as you want without worrying about police.
People assume teens are computer literate just because they're always on their smartphones; in reality they only know about their stupid social media apps and are absolutely oblivious to basic IT stuff
Smartphones made them DUMBER.
facts
as a teenager who literilly runs their own linux server, i am offended
@@victorcummins3825 be offended. You're the exception, not the rule.
@@victorcummins3825 lol, I also run a home server on an old laptop and am 17.
"This software was created for educational purposes only" yeah sure, believable.
Was crated
Edit : Fixed!
@@efeloteishe4675 typo
Thief education
Tobey Maguire lurks inside my computer.
Bully Maguire rent free inside your computer
@@hiban751 I’ll pay rent when you fix this DAMN DEPENDENCY
@@hiban751 Gonna put some dirt in your SVCHost...
🕸️I missed the part where that's my problem.🕸️
look at uusual junior? gonna cry?
Tobey looking at his files: *how'd that get in there?*
There's something interesting that my high school IT lab teacher said to me a few years ago (I graduated 10 years ago now) that applies here I think, as he was seeing a massive regression in computer literacy in highschoolers: after our millennial digital native generation and with the advent of the smartphone, people have become way worse at basic computing skills not unlike the generation that came right after the microcomputer boom in the early 80s, so you have a bunch of teenagers with grandma-level skills that have only used tablets and smartphones and are coming to computers way too late.
Thats true, I study Telecomunications and IT and its scary that most of the group (30 People around 18-20yo) dont know basic stuff in MS Office and Windows. People struggle even to write a HelloWorld in Java here, in a IT University.
it's terrible. my cousin is 9 and he doesn't even want to use computers because working with a mouse is too complicated, all he uses is his tablet. at his age i was already making shitty websites with HTML and CSS...
my mom is a teacher and she's been complaining more and more about how her students don't even have an email address (only whatsapp), don't know how to make documents (they'd send a crappy picture of handwritten essays because they'd never used word/google docs and couldn't understand our explanations on how to use them), etc.
It is a tradeoff. Computers are becoming more user-friendly and accessible, but that also means a lot of their features are concealed so they're never seen by a lot of people. It is definitely a problem.
That's awesome. Easy money for hackers, easy jobs for the rest of us
@@copperlark5400 I'd love to make easy money, and I can, but I have a soul and I am not dead inside.
Windows hides files extensions by default. Security through obscurity strikes again!
I never understood the reasoning behind that.
@@tdplay4135 but doesnt the thing explicitly say "hey if you change the file type it might break" ? I mean at that point the computer repair fee is just a stupidity tax
@@joule400 It does. And the issue with hiding things from the user is that they'll never have a chance to learn about them unless presented with it. Security through obscurity is destructive not only because it's ineffective, but because it allows people to be ignorant, and people are lazy enough to be fine with that
I'm almost 30, and recently I had to train a bunch of high-school students at my wagie job. I noticed none of them seemed to understand anything about computers and then I started asking them directly.
Only 1 out of the 20 kids even has a desktop, the rest of them don't even really know why you'd need one.
Because your phone does everything now. You don't even really need a computer.
@@kantraa A phone only does every 'normie' thing. You still need a computer for real work.
@@hamm3rextreme546 I mean, many office apps are available on mobile, that to normies is "real work".
> "wagie"
> has a pepe pfp
Do you also regularly browse 4chan too?
@@kantraa Yes. - I'm used to people always giving me grief because of my Pepe icon, I didn't actually realize you said 'also', lol. Yeah anon normies hate this little guy but I think he's great. He is a powerful symbol.
It is kind of funny how the README for that remote crypto miner describes how the program can mine crypto without being detectable to the average user...and then says it's NOT meant to be used for malware at the end. Bruh
Otherwise it would be illegal. The person only put that there so that the project can stay on github.
This should be illegal tbh or at least not be allowed on github
@@lancelikessause it's just gonna move farther underground and be even less detectable. I thinks it's good that we can see it exists.
"Not to be used as malware."
YOu know people are not going to listen to that when their minds are dead set on money.
@Number 9 Yeah I absolutely get that but the tagline is that it's hard to detect, meaning it's intended to be run on someone else's computer
Honestly I can’t disagree with your computer literacy points, it’s frightening how many people either don’t learn or refuse to learn about computers
Just like Mr. Outlaw did in the past I work for Geek Squad. The amount of people in various age groups that I've taught to do the simplest task on a computer is alarming. I once broke someone's brain showing them ctrl+c , ctrl+v.
0:06 Little does everyone know that the cheeto has been perched there for years and is now the toughest thing known to man
One of my favorite anti-virus's of all time is very looked over. Even though it catches alot of things before they even get the chance to happen. And the best part about it is is that there is no Instalation process, no guis, and it is incredibly simple to use.
It's called not being stupid.
👏
I know it's been said before, but this is why Windows obfuscating file types by default is a terrible idea.. You'd literally see the download as (filename).torrent without extra legwork. Whenever I'm setting up a Windows PC for someone I ALWAYS disable that option, but I see no advantage to having it on, period.. Whether enabled by the user or the system, it's just begging to cause problems.
Wrong, whenever you download something it will always show the file extension in Chrome, FF and Edge. Not only that but also you can tell by the icon. People who download torrents will usually havs Utorrent or Bittorrent so whenever they download a torrent file the icon of one of those programs will show up, an exe will show a different icon.
most people dont know what a .bat or a .exe is anyway
@@Gigachad-mc5qz They don't know what they are because file extensions are not user-facing by default. If that option was enabled by default, then more people would know what they are.
@@liyifenn i dont think the average user cares. but all i can do is look at my parents who dont know what browser means
@@ARose47 Irrelevant what Chrome shows, I'm referring to the file name shown in Windows.
No, they won't see the file extension. You know why? Cause the average human can't change a battery, god forbid if it's not an AA. I worked retail, I KID YOU NOT.
So true, can confirm (working in tech support for big ISP)
Does the average human even know that there are non-AA batteries?
@@dorukayhanwastaken No
@thephoenix215 From my own experience:
1. Retail: Boring as fuck most of the year, but at points is extremely chill. Depending on the place you can hide in the warehouse and take a quick nap. You make some friends too. You also learn to deal with bitch customers and bitch managers.
Relative pay: You can purchase your manga and figurines at the end of the year, generally.
Relative risk of getting murdered: Kinda high tbh. Especially on sales.
2. Tech support: It's far _far_ more disgusting than what you first expect. The thrill of watching other people's files dies out extremely fast. You must _really_ like computers to survive in that job, otherwise it's a boring ass job where you have to account for people's utter ignorance. Can get amusing or extremely depressing, depending on how well you cope with that: One day I "fixed" someone's MacBook that was "stuck"... _It was the screensaver._ (I refused to get paid for that because come the fuck on...)
Relative pay: Depends on whether you get paid a fixed salary or by commission, but you aren't feeding a family and paying mortgage with that salary anytime soon.
Relative risk of getting murdered: You could get stabbed outside the job.
3. Call center: The worst. Hell is a call center. You get verbally abused and you don't even get to look smug in front of the other person. People are somehow stupider while on the phone, and that's a fact. Tech support is an absolute cancer job. It can't be taken over by AI quick enough. If I'm offered a call center job I'd rather shit on my hands and clap. Plus, you may get mistaken by a scammer or something.
Relative pay: It's never enough.
Relative risk of getting murdered: You wish.
@@dorukayhanwastaken i mean they might know about AAA or the tiny ones you get in watches
Windows always has been extremely primitive when it comes to file type recognition. Back in around 1987, even the Commodore Amiga understood the concept of file types based purely on reading the contents of the file headers, it did not matter what file extension you used on a file. You could even create your own file type definitions within Amiga Workbench.
Even some Linux desktops appear to suffer from the same "laziness" and require the correct file extension before they open in the correct application by clicking on the file icon.
the issue is not "file type recognition". The file is an executable image, has a PE header and gets treated as such. The issue lies between keyboard and chair.
Nah, the problem is Windows fault to making option "hide file extensions" *ENABLED BY DEFAULT*
That's even more dangerous. Imagine double-clicking on a .jpeg and turns out it was treated as an executable without your consent.
@@VivekYadav-ds8oz And how would that work? If you are using Amiga Workbench as an example, then the file icon already holds the information as to the file type attached to it. And the desktop environment already knows what application to open for that file type - so there's no danger of accidentally double-clicking anyway.
@@TheFlynCow An "executable image" (if such exists) is still an executable that can have malware embedded in it. Whether or not it is an image is irrelevant.
That miner actually sounds pretty useful if you install it yourself. It's a shame that some people misuse it.
No, because the electricy price will be higher than your crypto gains (for most countries)
Except for detection evasion.
It just would not be valuable even if you pay no electricity bill then you would probably get 1€ a week if you configure it silent on your pc
@@xhec what are you running on to get 1 euro a week?
@Tobi
Invest in some solar panels and never pay power bills again!
This is some 1999 shit lol. I remember my friends brother got hacked like this via a file sent on IRQ.
Was probably by a friend of mine that sat in IRC rooms all day, sending out plain old .exes without any attempt to disguise it, claiming it was pron.
@@n-steam did it work?
@@superslimanoniem4712 He caught hundreds if not thousands. He had it ping back so he'd know when they ran it. The filename itself was complete gibberish. They even waited very patiently for it, as he uploaded to multiple people on a 56k connection.
@@n-steam Sub7 was always a blast. I'd port scan entire ISP subnets and found a lot of infected computers that I could connect to with the Sub7 clients that I had. lol
@@judaspreistvlct Did you ever talk to them with text to speech?
Honestly this stealth miner sounds like something I’d want to install myself. I have two halfway decent gaming rigs and a file server that might as well be making me money, and don’t even get me started on the 5-10 people in my life that I provide with free tech support… Might as well borrow a core or two in their idle time.
Crypto mining is generally worthless unless you have either joined a group of people who can’t go spending too much on hardware or you own your own personal array of systems to do it
Unless you’re mining something more obscure. This is going off of my memory so feel free to double check what I just said
The Hello Kitty virus holds a special place in my heart.
And your hard drive
The real problem here is that windows still hides the extension of files by default to this day
_Me and the boys watching vids about Windows viruses on Linux._
If you have Wine installed, that can become infected too.
@@judaspreistvlct you can have viruses from repos if you don't know what it is. Much less likely though.
Tbh all of it is the same as sudo instructions. Know what you're typing in first before executing.
Also... what Linux user would test viruses outside of a virtual machine???
in their defense, file extensions are hidden by default
But then seeing any extension at all should raise eyebrows.
truly an excellent default to ship with
@@mr.serious707 yes, I know how files work, but I'm not everyone in the world.
@@mr.serious707 Oh yes, that's what power users do...
That's not a defence, that's an incrimination.
Bro, you brought back a LOT of memories with the Limewire-ness. Those were legit the days.
It STILL is!!! I'm running 5 computers and one is an ultra peer on the Gnutella Network right now at this very moment!
If people don't know what is folder, they probably don't know windows file types too. Looks like basic computer knowledge is ancient wisdom now.
0:53
As a russian-speaker, you handled the "domoi" pretty well. Not the best, but better than what I've seen in my times.
When I saw several headlines about this i thought it was clickbait and somehow people took for a real thing, or that maybe the file was a real media file but had some kind of exploit for VLC or something. But nope people still fall for dubious exe files. Anyways thanks for the coverage you're the first person I see explaining the virus in depth while several "tech" websites have only ran a very surface level report.
I love this channel. It’s a shame I have no clue what is being talked about half the time. Even the basic stuff. Block chains, .exe files, blockchains. It’s witchcraft and gibberish to me. It’s a shame that as tech gets more complicated people’s knowledge of the subject remains slim to nil. The fact is that people feel they have enough reason to dive into this type of stuff.
The fact u still try to watch this kind of witchcraft video is wonderful. Take your time, and you can join the big league defeating He Shall Not Be Named
blockchains and exe files are extremely basic concepts that im sure you are capable of understanding. just read a couple easy explanations on it, i guarantee the channel's more enjoyable if you understand it
Just take your time and keep going forward. If you aren't in need for a specific skill, IT is easy.
the problem is that there is so much to learn, and the amount of knowledge keeps growing.
we're going to - at some point in our lives - become "too old for this s**t" and will also give up on catching up.
the problem isn't tech getting more complicated, it's that it's getting more dumbed down to be """""more accessible"""" to people. I'm sure a few years ago most people knew what an .exe file was, but that basic (and important) knowledge is getting lost due to phones and OSs hiding that info and taking care of everything for you.
1:32 Genuine "it's not what i expected, but i'm satisfied" moment.
Mental I love this channel, it fits such an amazing niche. You have no idea how your tutorials are helping me unlearn Windows and switch to Linux
Shouldn't they make it open an actual file that ends in ".torrent" or a magnet link of the previous one or something?
I think more people would be suspicious if they open the file and it doesn't start downloading something
someone put silent monero miner on a bunch of display PCs at the store i work at
I can't tell if that's a smart thing or not
chad
@@jacobeii i mean its not like we could figure out who did it
@@elektrokinesis4150 yeah
A long tome ago, a dude that managed to sell a public park in my city to some foreigners, after being caught and arrested, in front of the cameras, just as he was being shoved in the police car, he declared:
"There are so many idiots on this planet that would be pitiful not to profit of them."
Got a few years but his wisdom endures.
Nice video, understandable explanation. English is one of my native languages and yes, on 0:50 you pronounced it right. Not the best pronunciation but considering that you are an English speaking person it was perfect
In regards to modern games not or barely utilizing a multi-core architecture, it's because there's a significant trade-off. The more threads one adds to a game loop, the more time the "master" rendering thread fights for the finite resources necessary to feed actual data to the GPU. We've really seen a lot of progress made on this in recent years, but the simple fact remains: the more threads utilized, the more time spent fighting between those threads.
This is where an independent neural network "thread controller" chip would solve this.
That is not the only problem: Bohemia Interactive, a tech giant selling millitary simulations, was in bad light for years for utilizing only one core in software that had over 4GB of code dedicated to CPU calculations. It got so far that they even gave an official statement to governments that they would like to offer multi core support, but simply can't, because the software has to be handcrafted for each arbitrary numbers of cores to fight race conditions, timing missmanagement and deadlocks. Imagine a company having to write up to 32 different versions of their software, I too would take the most common denomitor.
In the case of BI, they said, that everything with less than 2 cores no longer can use their software and made it use 2 real and 2 virtual cores.
I'm a dev and I consider myself a power user, but honestly, I downloaded a torrent for a reality show recently and just double clicked it. I didn't check the file extension because it had a video icon. So yeah, it was dumb but literally anyone can fall for this.
So what is your advice
Pretty obvious; check file extensions before opening/running them.
the best way to protect yourself from this is to mine coins yourself
so the stealth miner will never see idle
Based
Script kiddie: *install crypto miners on other people's computers*
Me, an intellectual: *install crypto miners on my own computer*
I'm a computer layman. I'm pretty sure I got something like this on my machine from all these weird obscure patches I gotta use to fix my games. When my PC sleeps the HDD starts whirring... that can't be good.
Back ur files up on an external drive and nuke the entire system.
@@juliansuse1 That's the plan man. However, what if the files themselves are compromised somehow?
It might just be Windows itself running things in the background while the PC is idle, including Defrag/Trim. Before deciding to nuke the system it might be worth it to follow an optimization guide on RUclips, uninstall some of the Windows 10 (I'm assuming?) bloatware, reschedule defrag, etc.
@@eccoakadicco If you remove any suspicious files you should be fine in general. If any are present you would need to execute them or have another program executing for them to do their job. Don't include any programs and .exe or .bat files in your backup before reinstalling windows (assuming that's what you're using) and you should be safe from most malware. Scanning your computer with Malwarebytes is a good idea too.
Seems like RUclips deleted my other comment. Like what the other guy said, there can be legitimate reasons for your HDD spinning when the pc is not in active use.
I've just about given up on trying with one of friends.
His firm belief that he's not hackable, because of the AV he's running and all the customisation done to Windows' internals.
Running a four-year old min version of Windows 10, as admin.... i don't know how else to get the registry to register
*The Russian text is this:*
Нет пути домой
*Pronounced:*
Nyet pooti damoi
:D
man you've gotten so much funnier. always had great information but you learned how to keep it extra entertaining!
and that's why you enable file extension, guys and girls.
funny thing though is, that if you actually have file extension disabled you should still be questioning a file with a file extension... 'cause you shouldn't normally see it ^^.
Well, Windows by default only hides extensions of a "known type". So users are used to seeing some of the file extensions.
This probably is one of the reasons why when Microsoft store, Apple store (etc.) charge software and other things, which could potentially be found (free or cheaper) online elsewhere, many people still pay for it.
For the peace of mind.
create problem -> sell solution
Payment for not wanting to do a little research about a tool you use everyday?
You should start more content on how to defend against these kinds of threats that could be hard to notice. 🙌🏻
Just found this channel, basically understands nothing of what you're saying but I really like it!
If you really want to waste CPU cycles for someone else, then do it for a good cause and join world community grid.
Although i'm sure the creators of this miner "virus" (does it spread?) think they're a good cause as well.
Outlaw is a coomer confirmed
I never thought that a virus this basic could still work on a modern windows system.
On linux, I just have a cpu usage monitor on my taskbar displaying 16 threads individually, so I'd immediately notice something like a miner lol
The Thumbnail is pure art
i was wondering if you could talk about this "salad" program that has been appearing in a lot of sponsored ads on YT. It says that it uses computer power and gives back some points, which you can trade for IRL goods (money, netflix, nitro, etc). Seems real sketchy to me... Would be delightful if you were to do some reseach on it. Keep up the good work as always!
It’s a real crypto mining platform, the only thing about it is that a lot of people don’t realize it will cost more in power anyways to mine
Salad is legit
it's probably okay... the only thing is you would be better off mining the crypto yourself
Targeting the capeshit audience is a good idea. You can probably just do the exact same thing again when the next movie comes out.
1:37 If you got that as a teen you couldn't even be mad, it was fate.
When I was a teen, I could display 320x240x8 jpg images on my IBM 5155 with an EGA adapter!
I torrent fairly frequently and admittedly somewhat carelessly, and had one of these silent miners installed on me for at least a few months. I did notice some overall worse performance, but nothing concerning except for one way: it turned itself on and tanked my performance if I was playing with a controller and in borderless mode. If I had used mainly my mouse and keyboard or the game I was playing had a comfortable full screen, I probably wouldn't have noticed for years.
Been a bit more selective on what I download since.
no one that grew up using a PC in the 80's would ever fall for this. by the way have you noticed how nice hackers are now a days, hackers simply mining crypto in a way you don't notice is a lot better then hackers destroying hardware for the fun of it.
Crypto mining your cpu/gpu at 100% with your temps ~60-95c is quite bad whilst also being undetectable, & can't be easyily task killed ...
hackers these day want to make money fast. Like anyone. that's it.
If it's selling your passwords or mining crypto, they don't care.
Mining is probably the nicest payload as it doesn't harm you (except you electricity bill) or compromises your privacy
@@TheRailroad99 Mining it also easier to set up, and has a kuch more instant payout. You actually need to sell those passwords to someone who would want them. Whereas you just send the right info to your Cryrpto site of choice and sell it and you'll be, however much, richer.
Imagine if you can mine Monero-Chan using Fed desktops and they don't even know it
that did happen for a while some years ago
@@hairystyles4212 based
based
This dude is pumping out content like is nothing. Hell yeah man
speaking of viruses and antiviruses. will you do a ranking video for each antivirus and what is in your oppinion the best / recommended one? I don't even know if that's objectively possible and would probbaly require a lot of testing on your side but hey... content amirite?
Watch TPSC, he's been testing antiviruses for years.
Can you please tell us how we can go about seeing if our computer has already been compromised in some way? Especially if it's something the antivirus missed? And would these miners show in task manager? Or I assume not if they're programmed to close when you're using your computer
So how does one learn to computer? Any particular resources, or just try to absorb as much as I can?
4:33 aye thanks for giving the forum i spend way too much time on a shoutout
Question as I haven't really looked into windows security despite using it a lot for game still, I can check for suspicious background software by pulling the windows defender exclusion list right. It might not tell me everything cause windows is an opaque piece of shit and they may hide in Microsoft files, but it will give me an idea right?
ME: on unix since day one
MY JOB INTERVIEWER: so you can use office apps like excel?
ME: excel? oh, sure. yeah. of course. i mean, who doesn't, right?
Excel and some other Office software is complete rubbish. I've had issues where it treats floating point numbers as dates when it couldn't possibly be.
3.6432 somehow gets converted into 14/6/2020 but 3.1624 is displayed correctly, go figure. The graph tools are shite, it's a very frustrating piece of software. Visual Studio and VS Code on the other hand, that's a quality Microsoft product, Excel is not.
@@ararune3734 a true professional knows how to get ahead in the world of business. he takes an MBA in Excel and VBA studies. all government and big business require it for their official stats, reports, medical patient records and nuclear launch codes.
@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Yes, silly me for trying to learn computer science when I could just learn Excel and dominate this galaxy and the neighboring ones as well.
@@ararune3734 marches boldly to the dark side 🎵soviet anthem earrape 🎵
@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Soviet music is awesome, say what you will about totalitarian regimes but they had some epic music.
For the miner I prefer setting the priority to very low, it basically then only uses unused power and is very unnoticeable.
I thought all the people who would fall for this had gone over to only using smart phones.
This video made me realise there is a miner hiding behind svchost on my desktop PC, explaining the random wakeups and subpar performance
You should do a series on how to be more tech savvy
you get better the more you use and learn stuffs along the way, suffer from scams and viruses can be beneficial as you will learn better in the future, it's inevitable that you'll step on dog shit one day so just be more aware of what around you ;)
watch all of his videos and sacrifice a pinephone on an altar made of printed-out gentoo simbols, trust me it works
Its pretty easy. Get an hipster looking outfit complete with big glasses. Then take a Macbook to a Starbucks & open the terminal. There you go, you're tech savvy now. (Extra points for opening two terminals instead of one!!)
@@thedragonrises6882 hahaha 👆
@@thedragonrises6882 You're joking but 80% of the viewers here think they're hackers because they're using some obscure Linux distribution, and they watched a Python tutorial and learnt print("Hello World")
Minecraft for free got my Toshiba laptop way back in 2010...
This is an excellent case for turning on viewing file extensions
I like how you say [current year] instead of the current year. Which I guess was last year at this point, but I find it entertaining.
I remember falling for this trick when trying to torrent pirated music for my walkman. That was like a decade ago lol.
it says it should not be used maliciously but it has all the functions to be used maliciously 🤨
Me and the boys listening to "snoop dog.exe"
@@mr.serious707 *Devils advoate:*
putting the source and instructions out there helps software companies patch vulnerabilities and detect programs of this nature
@Watcher Lets not forget PRC and USA gov make hardware/software vendors add backdoor for the NSA and PLA.
*Remind me where most of our hardware and software is made*
indeed putting out a relatively harmless program that would be spread by novices increases the probability of a "bugfix" before a more sinister use turns up in the wild
@Watcher because they weren't given the proper motivation.
Antivirus companies and software patches will be forced to address a vulnerability so its best said vulnerability be used by a relatively harmless program that is still incentivizing a bugfix
1:25 gotta say, that Boris-chan there killed me!
i haven't seen spodermen for almost 5 years, thanks man
I can see into the future. It's the year of 2099, and people still fall for... Everything!
Does windows normally like to make heavy use of your hdd when your computer is idle, or is that something i should be worried about?
Install malwarebytes and perform a scan. If it still persists, do some optimization that's drive related (ex. defragmentation for HDDs). If it still persists after that, backup your files that are not executable and nuke your OS.
No crypto miner uses hdd without gpu involvement, windows did always use like 50 percent of my hdd when it was idle back in the day but you can check the stuff using it (for me it was useless windows apps)
Oh man, the Limewire logo brings back memories. The wild west of downloading something. I watched Fight Club for the first time, because I was trying to download some other movie and it was labeled wrong. Which happened all the time. 30% of the time, sometimes more; you just got a different file.
Perosnally, I like to clean install Windows every year or so. Will likely get rid of any hidden malware, plus the system feels snappier by removing all the crap that has accumulated over time.
Of course, you'll have to set up all you programs again, so plan ahed for it.
Or you could just not install everything you see
@@MingusDynastyy Yes lol, I'm a compulsive installer. If only Windows had a proper package manager, cleanly removing old programs would be easier.
Time to reinstall windows!
Anywhere here who is still using Windows LTSC version (less third party stuff) ? That old windows feels fast even after 4 years
me on my 11 year old install of windows 0_0
Where do you find your based anime girl pictures?
Yandex
@@MentalOutlaw what general search terms do you use?
You being nostalgic and all makes me realise how much we're alike.
Any tips on how to detect those things if they bypass default antimalware applications? I am not a complete retard, yet my gpu usage differs from literal 5 percent usage to 20 from time to time, even if I don't change anything. This might be browser combined with wallpaper engine that eat it up, but do they really use that much? I don't have a problem with GPU for sure and it is RTX 2070. I have also enabled power saving mod via windows power settings, so this might also be the case. Do I have to worry, guys?
btw sorry for asking here, but that is probably the best place
Man, If I was brave enough to torrent I would probably be one of the stupid people who click on it.
Luckily for me, I'm afraid of stuff like this and prefer to stay with my adblocker and pirate streaming sites
On another topic, thanks for making these videos, you are indirectly educating people like me on what (not) to do when It comes to computer stuff
To be fair, it's not hard to torrent in the right way. It's just a matter of finding the right places to get your stuff and habits to keep you safe
Just search how to do this(^) and you should be good, there is a mental outlaw video for this actually.
Well you looked for a "bat" man and you found it, don't blame Russians!
1:27 as a russian i can confirm, piracy is in my blood. Not sure about squats and vodka though.
Actually what you said where the last file extension is the one it goes with, is not really an over simplification. as I believe since windows XP you can have dots in the file name so when windows sees movie.avi.exe windows is thinking "movie.avi" is the file name and .exe is the file type so as far as it's concerned there is only one file type mentioned the .exe the rest is part of the name. no different to windows then if the file was named movie.exe
"besides social engineering of course" trying to trick someone with a fileextension is still social engineering but i think everyone knows what you mean 😂
*downoaling the 3rd wrong movie in a row*
Oh God dammit... I guess I have to enjoy it then
You remind me of a professor I had in summer school once. I paid a lot of attention to him.
I think that most of people that get theses virus has the show filename extensions disabled because on windows theres a option to hide the '.exe' on a file
By default, file extensions are not displayed. People would have to manually enable them.
verified spider man moment lmao
Anyone else not watching spidermeme? Kinda died with the 2000’s series imho.
No interest whatsoever. Iron Man 3 or Spider-man 3, whichever was the most recent, was the last Marvel movie I watched. Sick and tired of people in latex suits filmed entirely in front of green screens.
I wouldn't even waste the disk space on torrenting this movie.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 for me infinity war was the end. Thanos won and cape shit is over is my canon.
Whats your opinion on Fitgirl repacks? How would one know if those games have cryptominers in em?
In regards to this if I am still using my first computer, never had a computer before that. How can I know which are malicious files I may have downloaded when I first started using it, if any? I am soon going to get another computer should I just not transfer any of my files I have accumulated through the years?
delete all exe and bat files, then scan everything with some dr web antivirus program, because some pdf, mp3, hidden files and folders and so on still can contain exploits or something
With my experience at Malware development (for educational purposes) I can say what makes the job easier, is social engineering
No, social engineering does not normally deploy malware. Social engineering is claiming to be somebody you are not in order to obtain sensitive information like a password or credit card number directly from a victim who believes by virtue of misplaced trust that you are who you say you are.
Malware and social engineering are two different attack vectors.
You're welcome. Mind how you go.
PS. Sticking in an alias of "ls" to "rm" in a Linux user's .bash_profile could constitute as "malware" but it doesn't take a genius to work that out.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I meant using social engineering as the way you deliver or infect the people with it, you not just gonna type an IP in a textbox and getting random victims
@@terrydaktyllus1320 or even make the target believe that your Malware isn't a Malware, Just normal program
@@0xhades So if you call, say, "Janet in Reception" and say "Hi, I'm Bob from IT", and she believes you, what do you think is the easier task at that point? You getting the password to her account so you can install the malware yourself? Or you sending the malware to her and then instructing her how to install it on her account?
The answer is that you haven't got a clue, sonny. You need to go and read a few basic security books.