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oh shit lmao i just popped open the harvest moon ds cute rom in a filebrowser tool, and uhhhhh, they shipped this game with a file named 'Desktop_.ini' in every folder, which has the text '2007-6-25' in it.

according to google, this file is dropped by a bit of malware called 'Fujacks' (see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Virus%3AWin32%2FFujacks.D ), meaning that whoever built the rom that they shipped did it on a computer infected with this virus.

Like 14 Aug 2023 at 5:23 | Open on tech.lgbt

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winter éclairwolf :trans_furr_white:

update: the japanese version of the game doesn't have it meaning that it's Natsume that got owned

14 Aug 2023 at 5:29 | Open on tech.lgbt

mybarkingdogs

@eclairwolf and now I wonder how many games have Old Malware secretly lurking in them for this reason (and if it's a threat to anyone who doesn't take apart the rom/ISO in a file browser themselves but just plays it, etc)

14 Aug 2023 at 5:49 | Open on tech.lgbt

winter éclairwolf :trans_furr_white:

@mybarkingdogs Well, off the top of my head I heard that the recent Duke Nukem Forever 1999 leak has an ancient windows virus on it lol

14 Aug 2023 at 8:23 | Open on tech.lgbt

'Spooky' John

@eclairwolf This... really doesn't surprise me. I immediately wondered if it was a localization thing, and then I saw your reply. I loved those games, and still do, but they always felt... uh... a little lacking in the QA department, to put it kindly?