• RazvanN (3/3) Feb 02 2021 Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious
• Paulo Pinto (2/5) Feb 02 2021 See there was no issue having a GC. :)
• Paolo Invernizzi (3/9) Feb 02 2021 ehehehehe
• Guillaume Piolat (2/3) Feb 02 2021 Well, I hope they used @safe :)
• user1234 (6/9) Feb 02 2021 I hope that the signatures wont wrongly affect phobos and
• H. S. Teoh (8/17) Feb 02 2021 The bad thing about this is that antivirus software may start labelling
• Rumbu (1/1) Feb 02 2021 Here it is the killer app the D language needed.
• Imperatorn (2/3) Feb 02 2021 😂
• Dukc (3/4) Feb 03 2021 And there can be no doubt that whoever wrote it was a real D
• sarn (6/9) Feb 02 2021 I guess it's a good language to use if you're in that business:

RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305 gmail.com> writes:

Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious 
programs that is.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
 Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious 
 programs that is.

 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

See there was no issue having a GC. :)

Paolo Invernizzi <paolo.invernizzi gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 12:47:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
 On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
 Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious 
 programs that is.

 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

 See there was no issue having a GC. :)

ehehehehe

;-P

Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

Well, I hope they used  safe :)

user1234 <user1234 12.de> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
 Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious 
 programs that is.

 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

I hope that the signatures wont wrongly affect phobos and 
druntime.
That's a risk when everything is statically linked (which seems 
to be the case here as a comment mentions that the malware size 
is 32 mb).

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:34:35PM +0000, user1234 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
 On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
 Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious
 programs that is.
 
 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

 
 I hope that the signatures wont wrongly affect phobos and druntime.
 That's a risk when everything is statically linked (which seems to be
 the case here as a comment mentions that the malware size is 32 mb).

The bad thing about this is that antivirus software may start labelling
D programs as malware because they may latch on to phobos/druntime
fragments as identifiers for this ransomware.

:-(


T

-- 
Famous last words: I *think* this will work...

Rumbu <rumbu rumbu.ro> writes:

Here it is the killer app the D language needed.

Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 14:12:26 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
 Here it is the killer app the D language needed.

😂

Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 14:12:26 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
 Here it is the killer app the D language needed.

And there can be no doubt that whoever wrote it was a real D 
hacker.

sarn <sarn theartofmachinery.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
 Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious 
 programs that is.

 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

I guess it's a good language to use if you're in that business: 
easy to churn out code cheaply; easy to get low-level access when 
you need it.

I cross-posted to the D subreddit, BTW:
https://old.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/lbh8gb/vovalex_is_likely_the_first_ransomware_written_in/?