/lit/ - Literature

>>937319

What the fuck am I reading? Camus an anarchist?

>/co/

>>942587
So, what this is doing, apparently, is taking old posts and re-posting them some minutes later with the original image modified.

Don't be fooled kids, it's a spam-bot trying to turn YOUR computer into a spam-bot.

They seem to be mining the board for pictures and accompanying text.

Also
>my visage when you computer illiterate morons download things from 4chan and run them

Just put the pic I saved as .hta in my trash and am now proceeding to empty it.

Thanks for the announcement.

from /ck/ (lol)
>Execution

An HTA is executed using the program mshta.exe, or, alternatively, double-clicking on the file. This program is typically installed when Internet Explorer is installed. mshta.exe executes the HTA by instantiating the Internet Explorer rendering engine (mshtml) as well as any required language engines (such as vbscript.dll).

An HTA is treated like any executable file with extension .exe. When executed via mshta.exe (or the file icon is double-clicked), it runs immediately. When executed via the browser, the user is asked once, before the HTA is downloaded, whether or not to save or run the application; if saved, it can simply be run on demand after that.[3]
[edit] Security considerations

When a regular HTML file is executed, the execution is confined to the security model of the web browser, that is, it is confined to communicating with the server, manipulating the page's object model (usually to validate forms and/or create interesting visual effects) and reading or writing cookies.

On the other hand, an HTA runs as a fully trusted application and therefore has more privileges than a normal HTML file; for example, an HTA can create, edit and remove files and registry entries. Although HTAs run in this 'trusted' environment, querying Active Directory can be subject to Internet Explorer Zone logic and associated error messages.

>>942592
Yeah, I copy-pasta'd it from the /co/ one some other /co/mrade made, and now I'm reposting it to every board I give a shit about without editing it.

Wanna fight about it?

Also, THIS VERY REPLY was copy-pasta'd from /fit/.

COME AT ME, BRO

This book plus the following:

Selected Philosophical Works by Francis Bacon
The Rebel by Albert Camus
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Lectures by Sigmun dFreud
Technology and Empire: Perspectives onN orth America by George Grant
Lectures on Aesthetics by G.W.F. Hegel
Lectures ont he Philosophy of History by G..WF. Hegel
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Hiedegger
Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung
Fear and Trembling by S

>>942620
Once again, the theory is proven true. What the script does is it takes older posts, modified the image, and reposts them. Notice how the file-size for that image is 2.52 megabytes, which is WAY too much for a jpg sized 404x500.

FUCK YEAH!

>>942606

>>942594
>Implying 4chan isn't 100% trustworthy intellectuals.

>>942594
Believe it or not, there ARE kids on this board.

I know, hard to believe, huh?

unrelated, but you know you want it

>>942670
Hopefully the spam-bot itself will continue auto-bumping this thread, so it functions somewhat like a sticky.

>>942658
lmao kids are retarded

I get how it is retarded to save them in another format, but why not even open it though?

wait...something can happen if you just click it and open it, but don't save it????

>>942730
I demand an answer!

>>942597 Just put the pic I saved as .hta in my trash and am now proceeding to empty it.

Your computer is infected.

You don't gave to run it, it's renaming it to an .hta file that infects your computer.

Download and run the latest version of Spybot S+D right the fuck now.

>>942748
Just don't save it, and especially don't rename it.

>>942730

No, it's renaming it that activates it.

Out of curiosity, has anyone "reverse-engineered" one of these viruses?

>>942798

Go on...

>>942798
>'reverse engineer' virus.

What virus?

....why would anyone actually do what the pictures say? I just don't understand.....

>>942807
Nothing to go on about.

>>942817
Spambot virus in the .jpgs

It's latent when the .jpg isn't saved as 4chan.hta, right? Anybody save one by accident and have a problems afterwards even when they virus checked their computer?

Reverse engineer the virus...for what purpose?

wait so if renaming it activates it, and I save it initially as whatever.hta.jpg but don't rename it thereafter, is it still going to fuck me up?

o god guise i dled it

>>942875
Eh, don't try it. Lets just see an anon has done this by mistake and lived to tell the tale

Bonus: It also takes a file from your documents folder and uploads that, too. If you open the image in a text editor you can read these random windows into the lives of various Anons.

>>942880
I did it. :X

If you're on a mac or running linux, this won't affect you. But you should still learn common sense anyway.

>>942900
eh, not trying to be an ass but plenty of anons HATE tripfriends

please upload a screencap of the .jpg, along with this
>>942897
in a window so I can be sure

So...what does it do, turn your computer into a spambot?

It'd suck even worse if it were self-perpetuating.

>>942940
I tried doing it with

>>942670

I downloaded it as "untitled.txt" and all it comes up with in text editors is random gibberish. I'm scared to download it as anything else because I only have a bare minimum of antivirus right now...

oh yeah, I'm not the same anon that did

>>942875

>>942975
Okay, don't worry about it. I'd wanted to keep it as a souvenir, but the risk is not exactly worth ot