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    Will Roper
    last edited by Jul 25, 2016, 8:11 PM

    I’m an old vi hound, so I turned on the VISimulator plugin. Actually, I’m older than that, I’m used to the line addressing in vi that is based on ed and sed. So I thought to try a few global replacements from the old days -

    :1,$s/Pattern/replacement

    and got nowhere.

    So then I tried

    ESC
    :help

    for the heck of it, and find that reliably calls a trojan popup in Chrome.

    With the new Malwarebytes running, it’s showing that I’m redirected to http://VISimulator.com and that in turn is calling a round-robin of nasties adaptively as I block them.

    Beware!

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      bycn82 bbbb
      last edited by Sep 11, 2016, 1:13 PM

      New version of ViSimulator
      https://bycn82.github.io/visimulator/
      https://github.com/bycn82/visimulator

      Both 32 and 64 bit version are provided.

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        asz
        last edited by Mar 24, 2018, 2:43 PM

        It’s not a trojan but simply tried to open it’s abandoned website for online help
        (I too an old school ever wrote script/batch with edlin)

        I recently install ViSimulator for Notepad++ a new one, ver-17.12.17 (2017),
        Information got from it’s about box (the file dll property/detail don’t even show anything):
        https://github.com/bycn82/visimulator/issues
        bycn82
        2017-12-17

        I tried first with a simple command: G1G (move to end, move to start) -> it doesn’t do anything
        Then tried another simple command: x10p (cut char, paste 10 times) -> still doesn’t do anything

        If you a vi user, DO NOT install that new plugin (with the same name: visimulator.dll)
        Instead keep the old one, ver-0.4.0.xxx, 2014 by Simon HE (shown in it’s file property).
        It’s website link is broken (visimulator.com), but I don’t really care to update,
        the plugin is working fine, I made it read-only to prevent overwritten by a new, stupid one.

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          Daniel Vygolov
          last edited by Mar 14, 2019, 11:45 AM

          @asz said:

          It’s not a trojan but simply tried to open it’s abandoned website for online help
          (I too an old school ever wrote script/batch with edlin)

          I recently install ViSimulator for Notepad++ a new one, ver-17.12.17 (2017),
          Information got from it’s about box (the file dll property/detail don’t even show anything):
          https://github.com/bycn82/visimulator/issues
          bycn82
          2017-12-17

          I tried first with a simple command: G1G (move to end, move to start) -> it doesn’t do anything
          Then tried another simple command: x10p (cut char, paste 10 times) -> still doesn’t do anything

          If you a vi user, DO NOT install that new plugin (with the same name: visimulator.dll)
          Instead keep the old one, ver-0.4.0.xxx, 2014 by Simon HE (shown in it’s file property).
          It’s website link is broken (visimulator.com), but I don’t really care to update,
          the plugin is working fine, I made it read-only to prevent overwritten by a new, stupid one.

          Could you please post the old version somewhere? The new one is total crap(

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