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Anon finds a flashdrive

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Why did the folder have a file extension

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- It's an ancient meme rooted in green text brevity, intentionally misused to form another ancient meme, leading through yet another to a fourth.
  
  Appending .exe to whatever states that the contextually implied action was performed. For example:
  
  payday
  
  groceries.exe
  
  steak on sale
  
  dinner.exe
  
  It's being used here to obfuscate a folder, as file format was used to obfuscate distribution of the LOIC in the picture of the "It's dangerous to go alone..." meme.
  
  But, the cake is a lie. It was Morgan Freeman, all along.
  
  I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away.
  
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  Understood.iso
  
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- maybe someone once performed a command like "for all files in this folder without an extension, append .exe to them" and didn't exclude subdirectories from that
  
  no nothing similar has ever happened to me, nuh-uh, why would you ever suspect that
  
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- Well there's always self-executing archives
  
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  Self-extracting*
  
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- Why not?
  
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  Because that would be a folder extension in case of a folder.
  
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- Because there's nothing to prevent it.
  
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Fourty days later, Anon finds that his entire computer file system has been replaced with pics of Morgan Freeman

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- Why aren't there viruses like this? Everyone wants to hurt your computer. Do something dumb like that.
  
  Or a screamer virus. That could bring the world to its knees.
  
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  My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with "I broughted you a pwesent ^w" energy.
  
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  There used to be a shitton of silly viruses back in the day.
  
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  I wrote a "virus" in college, which basically:
  
  took a screenshot of the entire desktop
  
  displayed screenshot full-screen on top of other windows
  
  would only go away if you typed "@sugar_in_your_tea pwned me" or something
  
  Oh, and it started on startup, so rebooting wouldn't fix it. :)
  
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  I think that's because most viruses aren't made for fun but for a specific reason (i.e to steal money from someone's computer).
  
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  Thanks for an idea
  
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  May i point you to a thing i've once made:
  
  https://github.com/MHanak1/pierogi-rust
  
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  How about one that jumpscares you. Or replaces windows with Linux
  
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Perfect way to get a nasty virus.

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Either brave or stupid plugging in a random flash drive they found on the street.

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- Just plug it into an air gapped machine with a Linux live environment
  
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  How many people have one of those floating around?
  
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I have many a time been tempted to buy a bunch of cheap flashdrives, fill them with weird shit and just leave them in places.

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- It's all fun and games until a black van starts following you
  
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- Be the change you want to see in the world.
  
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  Researching the Zodiac killer and the Mansons has left me wanting to start a new countercultural movement. Just, you know, with less killing. ... At least a little bit less killing.
  
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Does Morgan Freeman run on Wine?

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- Worked for me on glorious egg roll latest.
  
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  I run Morgan Freeman in VirtualBox just to be on the safe side.
  
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And their identity everywhere compromised.

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