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Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine (securelist.com)
submitted 2 months ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1201475/kaspersky-says-hackers-are-distributing-malware-via-anime-girl-wallpapers-on-steam-works

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[–] subOrange@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They know their audience.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Any wallpaper from the Steam Workshop that also requires a separate EXE or DLL file to run is an insta-no-dawg from me.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any Wallpaper Engine enthusiasts here that can educate me as to why it’s so popular?

Is it really that much better than just finding wallpapers with an image search like in the old days?

[–] Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wallpaper engine allows for animated/video wallpapers. When I used windows I had this cool neutron star wallpaper that would spin around

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I thought those were a waste of resources when that kind of feature debuted with Windows Vista, but I'm the kind of guy who runs Xfce with animations turned off, so...