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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:37:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   The good news is that I avoided installing windows 95 today.

   the bad news? I'm installing Visual Basic 6 instead.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:38:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     image designed to scare web developers

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:40:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yeah I had to do some confirmation: I loaded up a clean windows 95 machine, installed a clean visual studio 6, compiled a blank VB6 project with no code, and it set off 6 antiviruses on virustotal

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 13:54:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     gonna distribute my app by installing windows 95 into a VM and then bundling DOSBox-X with the disk image, running my app inside it

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     Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:​ (jordan@sometimes.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:24 JST Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:​

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     @foone I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched On Error Resume Next glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

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     funny little orb (beanycatte@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:34 JST funny little orb

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     @foone why didn't they call it visual basix

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     Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:38 JST Xe :verified:

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     @foone do you need help

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Xe :verified:

     @cadey probably yeah but I don't think it's possible to stop me now

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     DrJohn (aeou@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:44 JST DrJohn

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     @foone are you planning to download Netscape with that?

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     Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:48 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @foone It might just be a quirk of my age and when I started/stopped doing web work for money, but IE6 is a lot scarier to me than IE4.

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     Joel Michael (jpm@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:37:51 JST Joel Michael

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     @foone with the corresponding scary warnings:

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     Kye Fox (Gamedev Edition) (kye@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:38:00 JST Kye Fox (Gamedev Edition)

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     @foone Will the USB add-on be included or is that part of a fun scavenger hunt

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     Ash (ashteranic@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 16:38:26 JST Ash

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     @foone I've had completely clean python apps that're wrapped up in python's executable wrapper tools start setting off A/V alarms because of 'suspicious behavior' which was fun. Browsers then start refusing to download it.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:29:26 JST clacke

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     @foone The good news and the good news.
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     Pxl Phile (ppxl@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 16:26:35 JST Pxl Phile

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     @foone Sorry for this late answer, my ADHD ass works like this I guess.

     Remember the Pentium bug?

     I just remembered some Security BSides talk in which someone explained how some AV software works, specifically one AV which detects viruses by analyzing if the executable doesn't check for the Pentium bug.

     So as a heads-up and with compilers that old... who knows? But maybe you already checked as well...

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