[HN Gopher] Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware
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Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware
Author : crecker
Score : 33 points
Date : 2021-10-04 10:40 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (serhack.me)
(TXT) w3m dump (serhack.me)
| _benj wrote:
| > If you were a child with a Nintendo DS like myself
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| Well, apparently I'm officially old ;)
|
| WOW, think about my mom or wife's grandma, and even though they
| are very unlikely to download a Mario Kart game, they are more
| susceptible to things like "Your computer has a virus" and other
| things like that.
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| I never considered that with a executable malware, the cookies
| and/or passwords could be compromised. Further more, that the
| computer could be made slave to a botnet.
|
| Is this how machines are taken captive to do a DDoS? Terrifying
| stuff!
| tigerlily wrote:
| This reminds me of South Park Super Mario Bros [0] by Joe Dixon /
| Polygon. I think both first and second editions were developed
| using Clickteam [1] products The Games Factory, and possibly
| Multimedia Fusion. I recall Enhanced Edition was largely bug
| free, incredibly polished, and loads of fun.
|
| Avira anti-virus software would complain about adware being
| contained in the same directory as spm2.exe. I loved playing spm2
| so I chose to uninstall Avira instead.
|
| Beware, I haven't followed the download links in [0], and I don't
| recall Mr. Garrison appearing in-game as is claimed in the
| writeup there.
|
| [0] https://www.old-games.com/download/2849/southpark-mario-
| brot... [1] https://www.clickteam.com/
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