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Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware

71 pointsby creckerover 3 years ago

3 comments

tigerlilyover 3 years ago
This reminds me of South Park Super Mario Bros [0] by Joe Dixon &#x2F; 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.<p>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.<p>Beware, I haven&#x27;t followed the download links in [0], and I don&#x27;t recall Mr. Garrison appearing in-game as is claimed in the writeup there.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.old-games.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;2849&#x2F;southpark-mario-brothers-enhanced-edition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.old-games.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;2849&#x2F;southpark-mario-brot...</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clickteam.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clickteam.com&#x2F;</a>
_benjover 3 years ago
&gt; If you were a child with a Nintendo DS like myself<p>Well, apparently I&#x27;m officially old ;)<p>WOW, think about my mom or wife&#x27;s grandma, and even though they are very unlikely to download a Mario Kart game, they are more susceptible to things like &quot;Your computer has a virus&quot; and other things like that.<p>I never considered that with a executable malware, the cookies and&#x2F;or passwords could be compromised. Further more, that the computer could be made slave to a botnet.<p>Is this how machines are taken captive to do a DDoS? Terrifying stuff!
cloudkingover 3 years ago
What&#x27;s sad about this is the scam site is still up and running.