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My 4 Short Comments on ThioJoe’s Latest Video About Super Hidden Files

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You can watch the video here.

First comment:

Dude, I’ve known this back when XP was still relevant, and every now and then, someone would hand me their USB, so that I could run “attrib -r -a -s -h /s /d” on it to unhide all super hidden files, and folders. 😅

Second comment:

Who remembers the malware that super-hides all your files, and folders, and replaces them with shortcuts?

Third Comment:

Me: I’d like you to print something for me, please. Cybercafe clerk: Are you sure your USB isn’t infected? Me: Dude, are you sure your computer is not infected? Because usually, my USB is super clean, and cybercafe computers are crawling with malware. 😅

Fourth Comment:

By the way, Thio, I’m about to use your YTSpammerPurge tool right now, because I’m starting to get really annoyed by spammy comments, so I figured I’d do some “janitor” work in my free time for some YouTubers I admire. Great job, bro! 👏🏻

UPDATE:

See, this is why I always end up going back to watch a video even when the title isn’t “clickbait-y” enough, and I feel so damn lucky that I have the tolerance to sit through anything, and in the end, it’s very rewarding 99% of the time. I wonder if this alternate data stream thingie is related to an executable I used 6 years ago called streams64.exe, which I used to bulk unblock files I had downloaded via browser, because it bothered the hell out of me that every time I double-clicked a downloaded file, it would ask me to hit “Open” again — not to be confused with the User Account Control prompt. As always, thank you, ThioJoe!

And by the way, as far as I know, “super hidden” files are system files, so this is more like “super-duper hidden files”. 😂🤣
I wonder if this could be related to something I’ve encountered recently, that is, PHP files infected with malware; when I open them with Nano, I don’t see the malicious part of the code, but when I use Vim or Notepad++ via FTP, the malicious code is there. 🤔