Poll of the Day > sometimes i think malware just makes itself

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i don't believe this claim of finding half a million new malwares per day like various places say they find

Well, a lot of them are just variants on another malware. Beyond that, AI could make malware, so... it's halfway there.

Do true viruses still exist? That is, small programs which spread by infecting other programs.

Why not? Most payloads are just repurposed versions of existing payloads.

Also new CVEs come out daily.

So they're self aware

Judgmenl posted...

Why not? Most payloads are just repurposed versions of existing payloads.

Also new CVEs come out daily. There is a lot of insecure software.

Windows and Linux are insecure OS's because they don't sandbox programs, so one bad actor program can do anything it wants.

C/C++ are insecure languages because one mistake means anything can just take over your program along with all the permissions.

Android is less secure because it's infused with Google spyware, as is Windows.

So I guess nothing is secure.

Yellow posted...

So I guess nothing is secure.

Correct but I can sell you the product I've been working on for the past few years that fixes this.

I think .exe's should be discontinued, and only app packages should be supported. exe's should only be allowed to run in a forced sandbox mode for compatibility. They should do what Android does, explicitly grant permissions one at a time, and revoke them over time if they're not used.

Windows should do this, but maybe they think they could die off at any second and wouldn't survive the blowback. I would fully be ready to be anti-exe crusader against the masses.

Judgmenl posted...

Correct but I can sell you the product I've been working on for the past few years that fixes this.

Really now

It mainly fixes it yea.
It's been a pretty fun time.