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Quoted from Skyride

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This is honestly more sensationalist that Fox news. Quite often when people find out how computers really work and the fact that they aren’t nearly as solid and perfect as they had previously thought, they just shit themselves and demand things be done “right”, thing is they still don’t really understand.

Example: That skybox installer batch script I made ages for movie making? I could have quite easily slipped into it some code to make it steal all your firefox browser cookies (due to another security hole in Firefox itself) and potentially got a hold of your steam/bank/paypal/ebay/email usernames and passwords. Even more trivially so If it had been a fully blown program like the PldX recording tool (!!!). Thats not to say “OMG DON’T RUN SCRIPTS OR PROGRAMS EVER!!”, its just don’t be a fucking spastic and run random things from dodgy websites, following that philosophy even without an anti-virus (which I don’t), you will avoid literally 99.9% of all viruses/malware in existence. That remaining 0.1% wouldn’t likely have been stopped by an anti-virus anyway.

tl;dr congratulations, you’ve just read something on a random website, stop fear mongering.

Like you said I just wanted to warn people not to run random scripts on their PC. There is no tf2 script virus in existance its all theoretically.
The best way to protect your pc from malware is your brain unless you are being attacked by a better H4ckz0r…

Quoted from AnimaL

[…]right, was worth a thread since it wasnt patched for like 2 years and few weeks after it got patched you make thread

hmm

no you misunderstood it I found a new way to abuse scripts while I was working on a new script system. I use the same method to store and load data per script.