Link files will show the .lnk extension on Linux and it should be obvious from the icon that it's not a video file. If you have wine installed, then double clicking one will run it and malware can still cause problems when run in wine.
If your torrent client has the option to run a script or command when a download completes, you could have it delete all .lnk files in the download directory. Something like find /path/to/my/download/directory -type f -iname "*.lnk" -delete would work.
Luckily you don't need to use their launcher. Just download and run the installer for the game.
Just add another digit and watch the entire country break down because they can't find someone to update their 40+ year old software written in COBOL.
It's still faster than most lithium batteries can charge. They still have a long ways to go to reach the charge rate of super capacitors though.
If you have physical access, then you have total access.
Yeah, I'm not paying for pirated content.
When the drive is mounted noexec it's not possible to run any programs on it. You can also mount any user writable directories noexec so they can't copy the program somewhere else and run it.
Yes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.
It seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.
That's for sure. I already assume ads contain malware and consider and ad blocker to be essential for security and privacy.
It's been a long time since I pirated over sneakernet. I shared a lot of music with friends that way though. I had an mp3 player with a big hard drive and it had a USB host port, so you could plug in a flash drive and copy files.
The blue background on metal film resistors makes it really hard for me to read them. I wish they would have stuck with tan and found another way to indicate the type.