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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlAntiviruses?
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    2 months ago

    I’d be curious to rewrite some of the malware we made in class and see if AVs would pick it up now.

    Most of them didn’t make any network calls etc. they would just mess with your files and system Things like Set background to Justin-Bieber, play Justin-Bieber randomly, we were very mature


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    2 months ago

    The best security is to limit your risk vector.

    Like you said Anti-viruses aren’t some magic bullet, in university a bunch of us wrote Malware and wrecked each other’s lab computers or did things like having the whole Lab’s computers CD trays open at 10am every morning.

    The AV didn’t pick up any of them and we barely knew what we were doing.

    Afik, AV’s mostly scan for known threats















  • I visited a friend, their 4 year old was watching YouTube on a tablet

    At some point I sat next to him to see what he was watching, It was a cartoon where the one character looks evil and has long claws, catches another, stabs it with its long claws, cuts its head off, holds its corpse about it and drinks litres of blood gushing out. Then gains an aura, pupils dilate and sprouts wings and flies into the sky to attack more creatures.

    This wasn’t some Anime, it’s a kids cartoon made for very young kids.

    I started watching happy tree friends etc. when I was like 13, but what the fuck this is next level.