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Is there a prediction market going for whether the MPAA is eventually found to be behind this?
lmfao. Imagine being good enough to code malware that does this and wasting your efforts on something like this. Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
So if you have these skills or interests, what should you do with them?
Red team at pentest companies
Law enforcement
Just about any level of effort will be better spent than going after software pirates, even if you end up only doing entry level jobs. Throw a dart blindfolded and you'll probably end up better than this.
Are people still pirating software? Apart from kids trying out software, people from countries where the product is not officially available or is exhorbitantly priced as compared to their purchasing power, I doubt there is a reason to pirate. Most tools have alternatives available or an easy on the pocket subscription plan (Adobe is an exception, subscription plans should not come with a lock-in, no matter how you j…
Its also strange that people are willing to spend $thousands on a gaming PC, and then risk their entire device to malware just to save a couple bucks on games.
lmfao. Imagine being good enough to code malware that does this and wasting your efforts on something like this. Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
It doesn't sound like particulary clever malware to me. It sends a filename to some logging service, then opens the windows hosts file and adds some lines to it. And it's only run because the downloader thinks it's some pirated software or keygen. Not to say there aren't some folks wasting time on more clever malware.
lmfao. Imagine being good enough to code malware that does this and wasting your efforts on something like this. Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
>Padding it out with racist slurs told me all I needed to know about its creator. Clearly that is the intent. These companies have no shame. Remember Sony's response to their rootkit being discovered? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
>Padding it out with racist slurs told me all I needed to know about its creator. Clearly that is the intent. These companies have no shame. Remember Sony's response to their rootkit being discovered? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
lmfao. Imagine being good enough to code malware that does this and wasting your efforts on something like this. Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
These skills are not that special. As far as I understand it, there are no exploits being used and editing the hosts file is not particularly hard. I expect that the executable is voluntary run by the user, since the user expects to run a real application/installer anyways.
If you can do this, you can learn more advanced stuff. Society has bigger problems than getting some free software, and it's not just a lesser problem - it's scraping the bottom of the barrel of justice.
If someone needed to write this to pay bills, I get it, but they should immediately take this and use it to get a better job.