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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

[–] DrinkBoba@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Knusper@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.

But yeah, the cmalw-lib-2.0 gives it away...

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, nobody uses cmalw-lib-2.0

Its deprecated, now we use hack-lib-client-1.17

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

systemd-malwared and its front-end malctl are how the cool kids are doing it.

[–] chocobo13z@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not too long ago, when Fracturiser was a concern on Minecraft, and I read up on it, I got a chuckle when I read that stage 2 was a systemd service, and therefore couldn't have run on my machine even if it had gotten that far (of course, I still checked for signs of infection)

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

systemd haters will moan and groan about 'bloat' and 'unnecessary end-user hacking libraries' smh

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn’t sure about it either

It ends with them donating money to the malware's creator...

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is odd, but not impossible either. I've seen influencers do dumb shit like that for the attention.

[–] excel@lemmy.megumin.org 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you’re saying it’s about as robust as a typical Linux application then?

[–] Revolutionary_Pi@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

He said the thing!

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Packagers job to make it fit their distro, innit?

[–] GentooPhysicist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a package maintainer, it's a lot of fun sometimes!

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bet, both ironically and genuinely, depending on the cade. Flatpak must feel like a godsend to a lot of people haha

[–] GentooPhysicist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've actually never used flatpak, I still prefer distro-specific package managers

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Flatpak is really nice imo. You can have stable distro with up-to-date apps. And sandboxing for proprietary stuff, which is really nice.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Username checks out

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I think it was a fun post about what we go through sometimes just to get X or Y working. It was quite clever.

[–] Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know your shitposting, but I used to run into shit like this all the time back when I used to try to run Loki software games on Linux back in the day. Within 6 months all the games I had were un-fucking-runnable.

It's still a thing now depending how crazy you want to get with your system (let's pretend you don't run Linux on an x86 system for example - good luck lol)