What's this all about?

G-MAN2004 · 28 Aug 2008 at 15:23

I've seen this on some certain websites:

1: right click on pic (a random pic usually)
2: save it as lol.hta
3: open it

What does it do? :confused:

Burnsy2023 · 28 Aug 2008 at 15:33

What is it supposed to do?

I know a .hta file an executable containing html, but not sure what it'd show other then the pics code :confused:

Burnsy

MTA99 · 28 Aug 2008 at 16:09

I have on idea but if you google "lol.hta" some results have been removed due to a child pron complaint :eek:

Burnsy2023 · 28 Aug 2008 at 16:44

Google is not helping my confusion.

Burnsy

Subterranean · 28 Aug 2008 at 16:55

It will probably execute malicious code on your computer, either adding a virus or a trojan.

A picture file can often be combined with another file, so that when renamed, it will act as the other file would.

G-MAN2004 · 28 Aug 2008 at 17:11

Subterranean said:
It will probably execute malicious code on your computer, either adding a virus or a trojan.

A picture file can often be combined with another file, so that when renamed, it will act as the other file would.

And there's me who tries it out of curiosity. Silly me.

G-MAN2004 · 28 Aug 2008 at 19:48

Here's one, but with a different file extension:

I'm sure you can guess where it's from.

:confused:

Burnsy2023 · 28 Aug 2008 at 19:52

Subterranean said:
It will probably execute malicious code on your computer, either adding a virus or a trojan.

A picture file can often be combined with another file, so that when renamed, it will act as the other file would.

I'm convinced this is what it is. So I'd suggest people don't investigate too much

Burnsy

G-MAN2004 · 28 Aug 2008 at 21:42

Found out what it does now. It's a script that spams that certain website with the same message, when you go on it. So, nothing harmful to my computer thankfully.