Comment by HeliumHydride

6 months ago

The "Run" app appears right after pressing Win+R, so this wouldn't work.

I tried it on a VM, it did work. [WIN + R] opens the run app down left in the left corner.

[CRTL + V] pastes a small code snippet in the run app and once [ENTER] is pressed it closes the run app and in the background downloads and executes a larger code snippet from a malicious website.

So if you press exactly what they told you to press it would install a malware on your computer. Now this typically targets people that don't even know what the run app is.

  • There is the classic "drive by download attack" where you have nothing to press.

    • I really hate that browsers have started to just download shit without asking you where to save it. "Convenience" my ass.