Was just reminiscing about how malware used to be occasionally creative and interesting in the earlier days of computers
Now everything is either a cryptocurrency miner, ransomware, or some other hyper-optimized capitalist enterprise
Capitalism ruins everything, even malware
This thought brought to you by me thinking back to a piece of malware 20+ years ago that called itself "the game", and that upon execution would backdoor the system and start fucking with it
Changing your desktop background to distorted versions of images on your system, trying to creep you out, causing various parts of the system to glitch, only to after X days inform you that its work was done and delete itself
I never was able to figure out where this came from, or what it was, nobody I've talked to about it seems to recognize it
