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[โ€“] mvirts@lemmy.world 169 points 1 year ago (16 children)

"the malware is written in the Visual Basic Scripting language." is where I stopped ๐Ÿ˜น lol at least we know the Russians are suffering.

[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] digger@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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

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