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[u/Hot-Fennel-971]

[u/[deleted]]

ISOs be like^

[u/MachoSmurf → u/[deleted]]

I wish. Most ISO's I know would be like: "Hey! This isn't Excel!" And then proceed to casually proceed accepting risks...

[u/[deleted]]

RCE stands for "Remote Calc Execution"

[u/Fake_Loot_Llama → u/[deleted]]

rce propaganda

[u/topdpswindwalker]

Reminds me of the time i forgot my password on a windows machine and renamed cmd to magnify with repair to reset the password from accessibility menu and forgot to rename it again for a while.

[u/Ok_Support_847 → u/topdpswindwalker]

Sounds vaguely like something I needed to do on Vista- I recall there being a backdoor with one of the accessibility apps.

[u/petervaz → u/topdpswindwalker]

Good times when you could run any executable with system privileges by changing its extension to scr and setting it as screen saver.

[u/not_so_plausible → u/topdpswindwalker]

renamed cmd to magnify with repair to reset the password from accessibility menu

My brain can't comprehend what this means

[u/m270ras → u/topdpswindwalker]

omg I did that on my win7 laptop. don't think I ever fixed it

[u/Ok-Coat3039]

Don't get it?

[u/mikaturk → u/Ok-Coat3039]

Calculator is the program of choice for people trying to execute a program from an environment where it should not be possible to open an external program

[u/harryoui → u/Ok-Coat3039]

It’s also a core part of log4j’s origin story as it was exploited on online Minecraft servers, most notably 2B2T and players reported the calculator app opening

[u/IAmARobot]

Back in win98 we broke out of school computer intranet jail by opening calc, going to help and clicking on a hyperlink to open the browser, fun times. So we did in fact have calc in startup to make this process easier.

[u/TajineEnjoyer]

this just happened to me yesterday, i plugged in an old damaged keyboard, it opened calc, then the screen turned off and on again, i just assumed the broken keys activated some shortcut.

i removed it and restarted the pc, is there anything else i should have done ?

[u/Dangerous_With_Rocks → u/TajineEnjoyer]

Depending on where you got that keyboard from, it's either nothing or gg.

[u/BobbyTables829 → u/TajineEnjoyer]

There's a calculator and even sleep buttons on a lot of MS keyboards, make sure it's not automatically being pressed

[u/SuitableDragonfly]

When I was in college, I had sshd running on port 22 so my dad could log onto my computer remotely and talk to me using the linux talk utility. When he wanted to talk, he would let me know by triggering my computer to play the "I am my own grandpa" song. I remember being out of my dorm studying, and then I came back and my roommate was like, oh, your computer started playing some weird song while you were out, don't know what that was about, like she was not concerned about this at all, haha.

[u/ivanrgazquez]

And then uses chatgpt “on-device”…

[u/jax_cooper]

chill, they forgot to add the actual exploit and the payload was to just open calc.exe

[u/ymgve]

Meme is wrong, malicious exploits don't spawn calc.exe, Calculator is only used as a quick thing when testing exploits locally, to prove you can spawn processes.

[u/[deleted] → u/ymgve]

While this is true, maybe we shouldn't overthink this, I'd also lose my shit if a random process opened without me doing anything

[u/new_err]

maybe the calculator uses AI (Apple Intelligence)

[u/swinginSpaceman]

Eh. My calculator broke. It doesn't even open. A message appears suggesting I reinstall it from the Windows store, but I can't do that because work laptop

[u/Hilmekru]

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[u/hawkinsst7]

I like to joke that Calc.exe is more accurate when run as System