Today, my brother sent me an image by Skype, saying I really had to see it. I figured it was some kind of stupid joke, but I tried to look anyway. It wouldn't open. Turns out he thought he could just rename the ".exe" on a virus to ".jpg" and it would still run. My brother's a cretin. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my nitwit son infected our family computer with some sort of mad bastard virus after getting fooled by the promise of some non-existent Hannah Montana nudes. FML
Today, my brother thought it would be absolutely hilarious to replace my cold sore cream with superglue. FML
Today, my little brother left the house with my phone by accident. He called from his school to ask for my password so he could access his email. When he got home and gave me my phone back, while closing the open apps, my photo gallery was open. When I clicked on it, my naked selfie was open. FML
Today, my brother sent me over a dozen screenshots from his phone, because he couldn't work out why it wasn't capturing all the paint he'd managed to smear on the screen. FML
Today, I was chatting to my brother on Skype. Out of the blue, and just as I read the punchline to a hilarious joke, he said his girlfriend had been cheating on him. I couldn't stifle my side-splitting laughter, and he's been ignoring my calls since. FML
Today, while I thought my brother was playing with my new phone, he was actually texting a bunch of my friends that I have chlamydia. He deleted his texts so I wouldn't see them, and I spent a half-hour trying to figure out why I kept getting texts of shock and sympathy. We're both in our 20's. FML
Today, while I was in the shower, my older brother thought it would be funny to change the language on my phone to Serbo-Croatian. I don't know how and can't change it back. FML
Today, while I was in my room sleeping, my little brother deemed it necessary to come in and drop a book on my face. When I sat up with a now bloody nose, he looked at me, pointed, and said "You've just been Facebooked" and ran away giggling. FML
Today, I tried to prank my little brother by jumping out from behind a door to scare him. I ended up scaring myself when I caught a glimpse of my weirdly-lit reflection in a mirror mid-jump. FML
Today, I had to give an important presentation, so I checked it over one last time before taking a shower and heading out. I found out too late that my brother used that window of opportunity to replace the entire document with the N-word repeating over and over again. FML
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tsent8 15
If only the rest of the people who made viruses were as stupid as him.
DocBastard 40
A cretin? Isn't that what you call people from Crete? So if people leave Crete, does that make them excretions?
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\ 28
Your brother is either incredibly stupid, or a master of social engineering.
tinyrosie 21
My thoughts exactly.
\ 28
I don't quite get what happened in this FML... Did OP's brother try to "fix" the file to make it open by changing the extension name to a JPEG from an EXE, or did he craft some sort of virus/trojan and rename it to fool OP and compromise his computer? The former makes him an idiot, the latter makes him clever.
Nyx_fml 23
I think he ended up being the fool. Not clever.
Snide_Sniper 3
Actually 17, I'm sure that OP's brother tried to be clever by renaming the virus to a jpg. But instead was a fool, because he didn't craft it in anyway. So OP has an unopenable jpg, that was supposed to be a virus.
tannara 12
Or both.
chosenblades 8
They change the virus from a .exe to a picture to disguise it. His brother thought you could just rename it to .jpg and it would work; which it obviously doesn't. This virus is called a RAT (remote administration tool) or better known as a trojan, and to simply answer your question, the guy is very ignorant / an idiot. There is your daily hacking lesson!
tsent8 15
If only the rest of the people who made viruses were as stupid as him.
Americanus 7
Well hey, at least you don't have a computer virus
tencentsakiss 19
Not necessarily true. A lot of viruses have false file signatures such as .pdf or .jpg when they are really executable. They appear to do nothing when you click on them, but are actually silently infecting your computer.
tencentsakiss 19
*extension, not signature. I'm half asleep.
tencentsakiss 19
Google "How hackers disguise malicious programs with fake file extensions" if you don't believe me. OP, are you sure your brother isn't better with computers than you think?
Jaaared_ 15
Stop commenting already.
xmidnightxlonerx 12
#44 it's not a hard process. It's as simple as spoofing an extension or simply binding the .exe to something like a .jpeg, and encrypting it so its FUD.
DocBastard 40
A cretin? Isn't that what you call people from Crete? So if people leave Crete, does that make them excretions?
tinyrosie 21
I laughed harder than I should have.
Americanus 7
Cretin - a stupid person Cretan - a person from Crete
Pwn17 25
8- How do you know how hard you should have laughed?
tinyrosie 21
I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A FUNNY OKAY?! -hides in the corner weeping-
\ 28
Down Syndrome used to also be derisively termed "Mongolism" until doctors realized they were being both racist AND impolite... I guess its time for "Cretin" to follow suit
tsent8 15
Then I guess you would be an excretain #10. Good job mr.buzzkill.
RedPillSucks 33
Excretion?
JMichael 26
13- *rubs back* it's ok. Don't cry. I thought you were funny.
Rainhawk94 27
Get out of here #48
lydrew 6
The demonym for Crete is Cretan. Cretin is an outdated, ableist term referring to people with intellectual disabilities. In contemporary usage by laypeople, it's a more socially acceptable way to refer to people as "retarded," which is considered an ableist slur.
OzzMonster 10
64- yes in contemporary usage it has become a type of ableism. But if you insist on getting technical it is in actual fact a legitimate medical condition referring to congenital hypothyroidism which is the route cause of the severe developmental and mental deficiencies characteristic of a 'cretin'. I think I shall go back to eating my breakfast now, live long and prosper
monnanon 14
never heard of cretin referring to someone with a mental disability. it was seemed to me to mean someonr malicious and nasty.
Himlagott 14
CRETIN (n.) Look up cretin at etymonline.com 1779, from French crétin (18c.), from Alpine dialect crestin, "a dwarfed and deformed idiot" of a type formerly found in families in the Alpine lands, a condition caused by a congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones, from Vulgar Latin *christianus "a Christian," a generic term for "anyone," but often with a sense of "poor fellow." Related: Cretinism (1801). Where's the racism?
CloudBustah 20
How exactly do you make a funny, 13?
clemsi 20
@77 take a serious, mix in a little bit of wacky add a dash of irony, heat and serve ....will make up to 4 servings
BrotherPhil 35
Yeah, language changes. Technical terms move into common useage as insults, and get withdrawn from technical use as the limitations of the labels are realised.
BrotherPhil 35
The racism would be in the use of the term mongol or mongoloid for people with Down syndrome, based on the similarity of their facial features to those of people with East Asian ancestry.
uoeno_fml 20
Everything's just gotta be racist and have the chance of offending somebody
Bigfabthetruth52 22
A primitive dumbass, i thought of that without having to go look up an extensive definition.
CloudBustah 20
Oh, ok. Thanks #78
Bloink 25
Send it back but rename it
evan_7899 28
Sounds like something the dunce brother might open, reanme the file fluffycatlolz.exe and watch as his computer dies off. Then he might think twice of sending viruses in the future
nina739 10
Clever!
capthigh 16
I have absolutely no words
DocBastard 40
I counted exactly five words that you had.
Trivision 10
I have absolutely no *punctuation*.
quinn1184 25
than don't talk
quinn1184 25
than don't talk
ohSNAPyall 27
Thanks for sharing that with us.
ViktoriaaKills 13
do you often BS comments?
golden_warrior 23
Send it back to him with the right format. The idiot will open it
evan_7899 28
Your profile pic is beyond words
Madster15 14
majestic is a word
Bano360 25
Evil genius.
happle 21
Without the genius.
Cynical_1 26
So why the hell is your brother trying to infect your comp with a virus?
doctorr_fml 9
That's what I thought! I don't see the fml here....
OzzMonster 10
For the same reason dogs try to wear shoes of course. One should always strive to defy one's mental limitations. It is the human and canine condition I guess
CobraLazerFace 21
Because he's a 1337 h4xX0rz.
Warmonger_Smurf 29
The short bus of evil geniuses?