"treat"
yes, if you check files and if it's ".exe" or unknown extension you do not execute it, then you are safe.
In general if an anon uploads an mp4 and you download it and even check that it's an mp4, it could still contain malware and trigger some buffer overflow, but that would be extremely rare. I'm using VLC media player. Do not use Windows media player in Windows, because it may have tons of security issues.
Good.
Windows is also trying to be smart sometimes, so better never use any Windows functionality directly with files downloaded from the internet. Always double check.
Most common ways are trojans called for example .mp4.exe and so. Windows still has that stupid default of hiding the last file extension, so if you got that "feature" enabled, you will see "so and so.mp4", although it's an .exe.
You NEED to disable that stupid "feature" to see what file it really is. And even then you can never be sure what Windows is doing. For some files Windows detects the file type internally and then does not act according to the file extension. It's a horible mess, surely intentionally - knowingly - as a feature for agencies.
They do all sorts of shit intentionally.
I have to work with their shit. Some is incompetency for sure though.
Take for example Microsoft Word. Not only do they change UI every few years, which is stupid already, especially now with their ribbon nonsense, that doesn't safe any space at all, but wastes space, but their VBA macro stuff is horrid.
Not only do they break things surely intentionally all the time, but for example when you used Windows APIs in their 32-bit Word, you had to write code for that, which worked. But now with their 64-bit you have to somehow add silly prefixes, otherwise it will not work anymore. And these prefixes are rejected by earlier versions of Word, which means adding these will break the macros for older versions of Word.
And then there are all the silly runtime errors. They can not even be bothered with checking syntax for all the subroutines, no, the subroutine has to get executed for them to check. And then there are all sorts of weird runtime errors regarding internal Windows functions, like for example printing. Some print drivers trigger runtime errors in VBA, it's that silly.
Furthermore the performance has gotten from bad to worse. I add tables using macros and before some table took a few seconds to create. Now in their latest few Word versions that takes now MINUTES. I had to rewrite the whole routine and it's still slow as fuck.
Even just calling an internal Word dialog and doing nothing in it that modifies the document takes ages. It's ridiculous. You would expect Word to get faster, instead everything gets slower and more buggy.
The latest got instantly banned and I'm not surprised. I think they even broke live stream mid session.
Always remember though, what they are called in German translates to Gematria of "government". And one of their lawyers is part of a new party now, which is always suspicious.
I think most is good info though, but you never know for sure. Some of their videos got removed by YT after some days. Sometimes there are re-uploads, I haven't checked if they remove content. They upload to facebook, and at least some videos are available on vimeo.
What is weird though is that facebook doesn't ban them and their videos.
I try to get their videos asap onto my harddrive. Have been doing that for around 7 or 8 months now.
Yes, that's what I really despise.
Programs trying to guess what I want to do, almost as bad as games trying to guess what the player is wanting to do.
I remember the time when OS/2 made by IBM had perfect Windows 3.11 compatibility and got into trouble because of that, because developers went "oh well, we could create OS/2 software, or we could create Windows 3.11 software and it will run in on Windows and OS/2". IBM shot themselves in the foot.
Microsoft always typically does not fix security bugs until a researcher found them. Not surprising surely keeping ones for agencies around.
But what is really silly is that "hide file extension"-option. They kept it since Windows 95 and it has always caused security issues. They refuse to change it.
Windows API is also horrible. I found a Windows API call that was introduced in Windows 2000 or XP, or a bit later, idk anymore, and it literally just called 2 other APIs, that was all. BUT when you used it, your program of course only worked since that release of Windows.
They pull that shit all the time. Do it with Word as well. Try to save files in .DOC / .XLS (the ole formats) and you typically get multiple dialogs asking you if you are sure. Always trying to force you using their new crap, and that will make older versions unable to use them, which in turn forces companies to "upgrade" all computers.
Another big joke is their OLE "in-place" support.
I'm using that for integration of Word into other programs.
And since Word 2007 there is a bug which causes it to go bananas when there are too many files inside a temporary word directory. In that case it will simply fail to work. You have to go into that temporary directory and delete temporary Word documents, and then it will work again. Stand alone Word will work fine, it's only the in-place functionality.
It seems Word calculates a temporary file name, but with a limited length, and when there are a few thousand files in that directory, the RNG spits out numbers that already exist, which will make it fail. It's like some amateur wrote that. They never clean it up. This issue wasn't there before, worked fine w/ Word 2000/XP/2003.
And nowadays of course system administrators typically have no clue about any of that. They will just reset the Windows profile and it will work again. It's a big buggy mess.
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