• prettybunnys@piefed.social
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      54 minutes ago

      That’s just a test file tho. Its whole purpose is to prove heuristic based scans work.

      It’s not actually a virus.

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        No it’s not but the whole point of it is that antivirus packages detect it, and they will kill and quarantine the process handling the data. Its purpose is to trigger an antivirus response for testing purposes.

        So it can indeed be used as a DoS kinda thing in many cases.

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    1 hour ago

    I was shopping for glasses late last year and these were frame options on every site I browsed. They’re out there. Whether or not people are buying is another thing.

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    Cybersecurity experts can block malware, what you need is a picture of a goat’s butthole or something technical like that.