• A New Kind of Ransomware forces you to play PUBG
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https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-kind-of-ransomware-forces-you-to-play-pubg-to-unlock-your-files/#comment-jump If only it gave you a copy for free.
Reminds me of the touhou one from a year ago or so.
that damn bastard is selling enough copies without ransoming my porn stashes dammit todd howard must be dying of envy
Im going to guess the author couldn't figure out a way to make it see if you got a chicken dinner or not.
Why do I have a feeling that this is going to turn out to be an incredibly obnoxious and possibly illegal means of advertising that the company approved? Just to be "edgy", because stealing footage from other games to claim as your own doesn't cut it now a days?
Play PUBG for an hour? Nuclear route is more appealing to me.
i'd rather just buy a new computer than spend an hour playing pubg
tencent getting desperate
Thats why you always should have backups of the important files. Don't give in to those cruel demands by ransomware!
Looks like a fork. The code was made public.
Guess it's time to get a Dell. I hear they have more room for "plug-ins" that make the grind much easier.
this is one way to deal with the competition from fortnite
@Zero-Point get the PUBG ransomware throw $500 SSD into the trash (I don't know why it'll only let me quote you on the top reply) Nah, just reformat everything and restore from one of my many backups. As far as I understand, all ransomware does is encrypt what you have but a reformat will kill it along with everything else. Unless there's some kind of insane ransomware that'll bake itself into your storage's firmware or something. Also, more like $1200 of SSD storage and $80 hard drive. Wait, that doesn't make it any better.
Imagine if it could be fooled by something as stupid as renaming calculator.exe to pubg.exe and keeping it open for an hour.
Maybe the guy just wants people to play with
what's with all the pubg hate?
It gives you the code without even having to play so I get the feeling whoever did this wanted to ensure no one could hate pubg because they didn't own it or something. It would not surprise me in the slightest if this is some "unsanctioned" publicity stunt
It's extremely loot obsessed and it arguably encourages greed/selfishness and immoral behavior in a way that can be revoltingly realistic, sort of how DayZ did. It's one thing to troll someone's pixel block castle in Minecraft and hit a pixel pig with a pixel sword but it's kind of a whole different thing entirely when you get a 1:1 representation of human douchebaggery in game. That and there is virtually no incentive to not be a selfish asshole either, so the only way to outplay others is to be a bigger selfish immoral asshole than them.
I've never played PUBG, how bad is the toxicity? I mean yeah, it's an online shooter so there's going to be some edgelords who type "niggur xD" in the chat, but what is it that allows greed and selfishness to manifest in a realistic manner?
Nothing really. I literally have no idea what he's on about. You can literally mute voice chat if it annoys you too.
It's just the gameplay itself really, I am not positive how bad the toxicity issues are.
I dunno Some people played and didn't liked it And some people can't have nice things anymore (like another Unreal Tournament for example) because everyone jumped on battle royale bandwagon.
I'm surprised that they aren't going for the double dip by forcing you to win while also trying to hock you a cheat at the same time
The hype about such a mediocre game gets tiring Besides, it's fun to hate it
Using a cheat would probably not increase productivity of this scheme since you'd have to deal with a lot more of your accounts getting banned. Since it takes ~2 weeks for an account to pay for itself in crates, assuming you get the max number of crates a month which is like 50k BP or something, you'd need your victims to be able to cheat effectively without getting banned. Since it really only takes one of them to go full blatant and get the account destroyed you're probably better off not risking it.
Oh cool, I bet it just scans for a process similar in name to pubg's process. It's probably super easy to make something in vbasic to fool this thing if you don't have 40 bucks to waste
Brendan Greene is somewhere violently vibrating right now.
i'd quit computers entirely and live a tech free life if i got this
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