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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 169 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"the malware is written in the Visual Basic Scripting language." is where I stopped 😹 lol at least we know the Russians are suffering.

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 93 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is like when I assumed my high school IT department was so good that I'd never be able to get past their content restrictions, but then renaming Halo CE to "explorer.exe" let me play all the games I wanted.

[–] June@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I had FF3 broken up into a few files and renamed and disbursed through the school network so I’d just pull them all into a local file at the computer I was working at in the lab and play during class. I thought I was the shit.

[–] sour@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

norton family:

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Renaming it to "winword.exe" was my go-to.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, it’s pretty smart to exploit the flaws in VB to make malware.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, it’s pretty smart to exploit the flaws in Microsoft to make malware.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they? Because if the worm is successfully spreading... 🤷

It's funny, though..

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're Russians. There's no situation where they aren't suffering.

[–] Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They’ve been exporting their suffering to Ukraine the last few years as well.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a non programmer, isn't visual basic for Excell scripts?

[–] deur@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

No you can run any .vbs script standalone