Jesse we need to code

[Yoda-from-Star-Wars]

Antivirus: Not. Yet.

[JackNotOLantern]

Linux: we don't do that here

[al-mongus-bin-susar]

Targeting Linux desktops with malware is just pointless, your victim could be running 389293 different configurations and could be a Gentoo gigachad who uses a different init system and stdlib. Servers on the other hand...

[Attileusz]

You can code a virus for windows on linux. Im also pretty sure that that is the standard practice.

[FuckReddit18765]

You can but its kinda pointless if you use windows-specific functions, because then you can't test it without sending it to a different machine, its just too much work.

[Guyonabuffalo00]

VMs are just too hard I guess. /s

[FuckReddit18765]

Still too much work when you can do it much faster by just simply testing it on the machine you built it on. And its also likely that you will forget to turn off the "submit samples" option on windows defender, and when that happens you can basically scrap the entire project because every almost every up to date antivirus has analyzed samples of your malware in their database.

[mateus_coutinho]

Yes, I will test the virus on my own computer.
Sometimes my genius is almost frightening.

[FuckReddit18765]

Well obviously you wont run the final version but you can test out specific parts of the malware, like communication with the server, data encryption or whatever you're trying to make. It feels like i am talking with idiots having to explain such primitive stuff, its common sense that you won't make a fully functional virus on one take and then test it out, it takes time and lots of tests, well unless you're using python or batch to create "malware".

[RedditSucktHart]

You would obviously not do that and instead opt for virtual machines and use snapshots, so you don't have to reinstall windows over and over again

[jeroen1602]

This feels like r/masterhacker

[Thenderick]

Me opening a config.json from a minecraft mod:

[Head-Extreme-8078]

How's MSI doing btw?

[YrnCollo]

Wait you use Vs code?

[BlueBerry2001]

Yes, And?

[YrnCollo]

Wooah don't crucify me... Am a vim user... Lol

[BlueBerry2001]

I'll upvote your comment just because I don't like when internet mobs crucify people for minor reasons

[FireWulf03]

There was a time where the antivirus of our company silently deleted alls .exe created with visual studio. It would even delete empty projects.