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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:26:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   ahh, one of the most fun parts of doing software archaeology: finding out exactly how many viruses that retro machine had.

   in this case: at least, like, 6?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:29:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yet another reason why you DO NOT CONNECT OLD MACHINES TO YOUR NETWORK without a lot of precautions

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:33:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I also need to figure out how to run a "modern" virus scan against a machine that's like a 300mhz 64mb windows box.

     maybe stick the drive in a VM, boot a modern linux with clamav?

   • Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:34:27 JST Peter Bindels

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     @foone Maybe even some retro viruses like NIH / Chernobyl.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:34:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Peter Bindels

     @dascandy42 I still find those from time to time while archiving floppy disks

   • Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀ (mishavanmollusq@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:54:04 JST Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

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     @foone how old is old? Would viruses from a quarter century ago even “know” how to infect a modern OS?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:54:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

     @MishaVanMollusq you'd be surprised. backwards compatibility goes a long way, and given how long "search all SMB shares and overwrite all the EXE files" has been around, even a modern linux server's files can get hosed if you don't have passwords on internal network shares

   • Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:55:36 JST Peter Bindels

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     @foone I'd be surprised if you didn't. Any Brain too?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:55:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Peter Bindels

     @dascandy42 don't think so.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 16:41:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I mounted it on my win10 machine and let defender scan it.
     Turns out it's at least 10 viruses!

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 23:53:45 JST vxo

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     @foone now with enhanced search results from CoolWebSearch!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 04:05:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     clamscan found 5 more!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 04:11:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     including mirc32.exe?

     FOR SHAME, KHALED MARDAM-BEY!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 09:56:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ben Curran :azure:

     @BenCurranDev presumably still developing mIRC: the latest version is 16 days old.

     (his linkedin/facebook don't mention any other jobs, but I assume he does more than that)

   • Ben Curran :azure: (bencurrandev@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 09:56:18 JST Ben Curran :azure:

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     @foone I wonder what he’s doing these days?