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Re: Foolish by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/16/2018, 6:29pm PDT
Orange Devil Bat wrote:

That was an awfully foolish thing to do.
Since you said the virus was trying to connect to other websites, it does not sound like you disconnected the machine from the internet.
I'll give you that, that was one I missed. Also at the time I was unaware Windows could run under a VM; last time I tried Windows could not be virtualized.
Any cached password in your browser and any files containing PII may be in the hands of hackers now.

I do not use that machine to do anything involving personal information, banking, money or special logins. And I do not have any accessible or sharable folders on any machine. I share files on my Buffalo NAS, nothing is shared on any computer.
Additionally, these viruses can attempt to affect other machines on your local network, and some may even try to compromise your router. If you plugged your USB stick into your computer while it was infected, it may be infected now too.

It really can't do anything to my router because I run "double routed" in which my router is running a 192.168 network underneath the 10.0 network supplied by Comcast's router. It can't create a hole in the firewall because I don't have access to it, only to the secondary router below it.

What would you do if that virus used your internet connection to start downloading naked pictures of kids? "It wasn't me, officer. I was just randomly installing viruses on my computer to see what would happen." That will go over great in court.


And exactly how does this scenario take place? As far as I know everyone caught with child pornography was either carrying it on a computer across a national border when the computer was inspected, they were on a sharing network, or they visited kiddie porn websites to share files. And even if it did download something, none of the other machines have any sharable directories, it would have had to download locally, and any files have now been expunged.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Orange Devil Bat wrote:

There are much safer ways to do what you were attempting to do, like using a virtual machine as Ice Cream Jonsey suggested, but even when doing that people take precautions to ensure their host machines and local networks don't get compromised.


Ah, but see, the Commander had an answer for that. You see. You see, he had a response. I must not have read his --

You know what? I am OUT OF THE SAVING TDARCOS BUSINESS. Tdarcos, install all the goddamn viruses you want on your PC, nobody gives a shit any more.


The only computer that has irreplaceable files is my Buffalo NAS. It's about 1 1/2 terabytes. Backed up every couple of weeks by one of two local hard drives that most of the time are not even plugged in, except to make backups. I never connect both at the same time.

When you need three bitcoin to unlock the worthless nonsense on your computers because it hopped to the PC you do care about on your network, don't come crying to us. We will pull the pockets from our pants and say, sorry, no bitcoins on us.

At which point I would pull out one of my backup drives, restore one of the machines, restore the NAS and say "fuck you" to the assholes who thought they could extort money from me.

You may or may not remember about four years ago when I mentioned how I dropped both external backup hard drives that I had all my music I had stolen downloaded from Napster. I'm not Pepperidge Farm, but I haven't forgotten.
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Examining a trojan/virus on my computer by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 03/11/2018, 12:50pm PDT NEW
    Dude. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/11/2018, 1:20pm PDT NEW
        Re: Dude. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 03/14/2018, 7:20pm PDT NEW
    Imagine getting the credentials of Tdarcos by Kirahu Nagasawa 03/11/2018, 1:21pm PDT NEW
        Re: Imagine getting the credentials of Tdarcos by well worth it 03/12/2018, 6:58am PDT NEW
    Foolish by Orange Devil Bat 03/19/2018, 7:21am PDT NEW
        Re: Foolish by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/19/2018, 9:20am PDT NEW
            Re: Foolish by Orange Devil Bat 03/21/2018, 7:39am PDT NEW
            Re: Foolish by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/16/2018, 6:29pm PDT NEW
                Re: Foolish (follow up) by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/16/2018, 6:36pm PDT NEW
        Turn off SMB 1.0 at least by laudablepuss 03/19/2018, 3:23pm PDT NEW
            Nonsense. You can't get hacked if you're running Super Mario Brothers. by blackwater 03/19/2018, 9:39pm PDT NEW
 
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