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There is no way the virus functioned. Seriously. The guy had no tech background.
There is no way the virus functioned. Seriously. The guy had no tech background.
WMI was introduced in XP (I think? Was it later?) and asking WMI for the version string was pretty common.
The reason there isn’t a Windows 9 is because there was a common test for windows versions that went something like this:
std::string winVer = getWinVerStr();
if (winVer.find(“Windows 9”) != -1)
{
// This is windows 95 or 98
}
A good chunk of older programs would likely have issues.
It makes more sense when I dug into it more deeply, but still—gave me a chuckle.
This is unrelated to this topic exactly, but I don’t know what OpenTofu is nor what it is for, so I looked at the FAQ.
What is OpenTofu?
OpenTofu is a Terraform fork, created as an initiative of Gruntwork, Spacelift, Harness, Env0, Scalr, and others, in response to HashiCorp’s switch from an open-source license to the BUSL. The initiative has many supporters, all of whom are listed here.
This is practically a meme…I have no idea what all of these are (coming from my area of expertise).
He was most certainly being sarcastic.
Looks like somebody rewrote json to require brackets around keys and to require semicolons? Very likely custom.
I don’t (generally) sail the high seas, but I’m surprised that people don’t use SysInternals tooling on windows. Of note:
ProcExp - A way better process explorer and has a built-in VirusTotal scanner for all running processes. 100 times better than standard process explorer. This in combination with windows defender is nearly always enough.
AutoRuns - A tool to see what automatically runs on your system. Included image hijacks and such. This is for handling potential post-infection scenarios.
…did you not read the article?
Tabs for indentation/increased scope, spaces for alignment. The best answer.
Serious question: Is “Directed Acyclical Graph” really an unknown term for people? The author harped on it pretty hard, but what it is…is pretty apparent, no? I mean, I’ve encountered the term often, but I don’t think I had any need to look it up…
That makes a lot of sense. It’s easy to forget life before DVDs & streaming, the latter being so damn normal now.
I would have thought Space Jam would have had more to do with that. Furries as a concept isn’t as popular with the 50 yr old crowd.
It’s not real.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+"meme+page+admin"