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Many, many pieces of malware were distributed as windows .scr files. Some were just viruses abusing the extension. A ton were bonzi-buddy-esque data-harvesters
by GauntletWizard 2y ago
Many, many pieces of malware were distributed as windows .scr files. Some were just viruses abusing the extension. A ton were bonzi-buddy-esque data-harvesters where users were encouraged by advertising to install "Free cute and funny screensavers!" (many were literally just oneko+malware).
Oh, and the part about location data is blatantly untrue, because one of the options on mapscroller is "Current City".
- eesmith 2y agoWhere do you see that option? I don't see "Current City" in the source, and the documentation only says: > "Random‐city" means to select from a built‐in list of several hundred major cities. This is the default. > Otherwise, this must be a latitude/longitude pair, as floats. Furthermore, hacks/glx/mapscroller.c says: * Network access and management of the image file cache happens in the * mapscroller.pl helper program, since doing https from C code is untenable. * Sadly, this division of labor means that this program won't work on iOS or * Android.