• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it’s about as good as any first-pass bash script.

    It’d be a stretch to call it malware, it’s probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

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        I wasn’t sure about it either. There’s security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.

        But yeah, the cmalw-lib-2.0 gives it away…

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              Not too long ago, when Fracturiser was a concern on Minecraft, and I read up on it, I got a chuckle when I read that stage 2 was a systemd service, and therefore couldn’t have run on my machine even if it had gotten that far (of course, I still checked for signs of infection)

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              systemd haters will moan and groan about ‘bloat’ and ‘unnecessary end-user hacking libraries’ smh

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          I wasn’t sure about it either

          It ends with them donating money to the malware’s creator…

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            Yes, that is odd, but not impossible either. I’ve seen influencers do dumb shit like that for the attention.

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      I know your shitposting, but I used to run into shit like this all the time back when I used to try to run Loki software games on Linux back in the day. Within 6 months all the games I had were un-fucking-runnable.

      It’s still a thing now depending how crazy you want to get with your system (let’s pretend you don’t run Linux on an x86 system for example - good luck lol)