Obfuscated JavaScript code can be seen everywhere. And yes, obfuscated files are accepted: Microsoft even created an obfuscation tool for VBScript, but not an unobfuscation counterpart. Windows is designed to execute Windows Scripting Hosts scripts written in no matter what language, including VBScript (.vbs/.vbe) and JScript (.js/.jse), or whatever a.Windows is designed to execute stupid Office macros that can “do things” not to the document itelf, but to the system.Windows is designed to allow the execution of binaries from paths such as %temp%, %AppData%, %LocalAppData%, %userprofile%, %programdata%, %allusersprofile%, and everywhere else.Most malware infections can be mitigated, but ransomware is a different kind of beast.Īnd the way Microsoft has designed its fucked-up operating system, ransomware is merely a disaster waiting to happen: Truth be told, I never really got infected but, should an infection with a ransomware happen, this might prove catastrophic, given that sometimes it takes me months before I make backup copies of everything that’s valuable. With the ransomware epidemic of 2015-2016, this necessity is even more obvious. This is because all of them suck, yet I need protection. It happens to me more than once a year to change the antivirus-cum-antimalware solution.
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