#fix malware

[fixransomwaremalware]

Fix Ransomware & Malware is a blog about ransomware and malware, with a focus of providing tips how to prevent ransomware and malware infections as well as offering help if malware infection has already happened.

[icicleteeth]

You know a non insignificant reason for dragging my feet on taking the computer back to the store for repairs Again is that every time ive done it, i have to rip all my stickers off before taking it in… Like sure half of them are normal cute stickers but the other half is candygore and a moogle with a glock, like im stressed enough being back there for pc problems again, i dont want to have to answer questions about my immaculate taste in stickers too 🙅

[whatudottu]

Honestly Ben 10 is probably one of the most based science fiction series out there by sheer virtue of it having the balls to showcase any alien concept it wanted to no matter how ridiculous, and whenever someone is like “there’s no way in Hell that could ever be scientifically feasible”, it dared to look them in the eyes and go “Yeah, well, this is a world where magic and superpowered mutants also exist. What are you gonna do? Cry about it? You grown ass adult who’s expecting scientific feasibility out of a cartoon meant to sell toys to preteen boys that has lore so inconsistent it’s almost impossible to tell what’s canon and what’s non-canon? LMAO loser.”

I mean OS had it all- obviously aliens but not only that, at minimum 10 of them; mutants in daily life across at least America, no doubt in other places too; magic, albeit one without a system beyond ‘there’s a spellbook and some charms’. The shift to purely alien in AF makes the wonderful nonsense sci-fi stuff into frustrating logic trees of ‘how does xenobiology get this powerful’ which I had definitely fallen into. Ben 10 is unabashedly science fantasy, so why not go the full fantasy and bring back mutants and magic, haha!

Admittedly a good implementation of magic in a series tends to follow a magic system, which I’m not especially great at coming up with, especially in comparison to speculative biology which come with pre-established rules. But hey, I don’t exactly expect it to be fleshed out, at least not as well as the alien aspect of Ben 10; even then, there’s only so much fleshed out, it’s to tease us into making lore for it lmao-

To be fair though, Ben 10 itself had to whack itself on the cheek in order to be reminded of its magic and especially mutant parts, which unfortunately in the latter case was central to major retcons so…

[graveyarrdshift]

sometimes I think. then I regret it and wish I had no malware in my brain

[malice-and-macarons]

“You took a perfectly good canon and broke it!”

[adulthumanproblem]

There's something extremely hilarious about YouTube forcing me to deactivate uBlock (will be back within a day or two), only to then show me an ad for an adblocker

[inorganicorgan]

"[static] -ver- [static] -one- [static] Oh-fi-fi-fi-five oh-one two-si-si-six-oh-nine. Th-there's a- a- a base-base-base- [static] basement. All the d-d-d-doors lock from the insi-si-side. All of them. [static] The basement in this win-win-wi-windowless -"

FATAL ERROR: 01000100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010

[totentnz]

i know i asked this question before but imma ask it again: do you think you have to charge your cyberware? and if the answer is yes (which it should be tbh) how often do you have to charge/ how long does the battery last?

[terminallyworkingonit]

I love when downloading a mysterious .exe file from GitHub to solve a hyper specific problem actually solves the hyper specific problem instead of being malware. It makes me feel good about my life choices.

[skhardwarevers1]

little bro doesn’t know where he’s at [and also is having a crisis]

Picture taken by me [after a wrestling show]

little guy drawn in by me [and my now dead knock off Apple Pencil]

[fixransomwaremalware]

Fix Ransomware & Malware is a blog about ransomware and malware, with a focus of providing tips how to prevent ransomware and malware infections as well as offering help if malware infection has already happened.

[multiicolor]

it's been a minute since i played dress up with celeste so have like. three styles she wouldn't usually wear LMAO

[ln-ofx]

This is only weeks after HP tried to nuke my computer with a faulty auto-update on an app I didn't even know I had. Wtf is going on in

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

[vanilla-voyeur]

Meta is tracking browser history during incognito mode in their Android apps. There is no way to turn this off. Delete every Meta app from your phone. Delete Facebook, Messanger, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Only access them through a browser with ad-block.

[mysoulspiralbound]

i once managed to remove the wifi button on my computer. not, like, i wasn't connected to the internet, or couldn't click the button or whatever. it literally just did not exist, even if you went into settings, the wifi option was just gone. device just would not connect to the internet. i wound up having to do a full factory reset on it when neither me nor the person who worked IT could figure out (a) what the fuck i did or (b) how the fuck to undo it

[scrawlingskribbles]

if only Disney+ had their own movie on their own service that's supposed to host all of their films/etc. in one place...... 😔 shame, that.