My “technic informatic” friend sent me this and tells me to open it but i’m not sure what is this. Can you tell me?

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  1. basically it deletes all the txt, exe, bat and vbs files of your C disk

  2. It delete files with corresponding extension from root folder of drive C.

    In common situation it will delete nothing, as in root folder you should not have such files. But better to not belive person who try to delete something on your PC

  3. Are you sure, people, it could delete anything?

    What is “*C” drive? Never seen such in my life.

  4. Ask him to get familiar with recursive walking through directory tree. Then the joke would be much better

  5. no context?

    i would expect receiving stuff like that if i said there are some weird files on my C: drive and i have no idea which ones are safe to remove

    that asterisk before the drive letter is suspicious though, i have no idea how that would work, ping me if it actually does something

  6. Your friend is a jerk, but fortunately not a clever one.

    Tried to delete a shitton of important files from your drive but due to the syntax error, it will probably not work. Find better friends.

  7. 25 years ago this would’ve deleted some important system files.

  8. Your friend is actually a time traveler and is a primary-school level virus programmer from over 20 years ago.

  9. A poor attempt at trolling. Not only your friend is a bit of a twat, he’s shit at pretending he’s an IT pro as well.

  10. It’s a crude attempt to get you to cripple your machine. Won’t work for several reasons, but not for lack of trying.

    That’s what I call an unfriending generating event.

  11. I’m no it expert… but i wouldn’t run a code that has so many dels in it.

  12. Send him back „sudo rm -rf”, or if you particularly don’t like them „sudo rm -rf –no-preserve-root”.

  13. I’ve executed this on Win10, inside a VM just in case. The result is:

    `Invalid switch – “*.txt”.`

    `Invalid switch – “*.exe”.`

    `Invalid switch – “*.bat”.`

    `Invalid switch – “*.vbs”.`

  14. Would this be a better way to do it?

    ATTRIB C:\*.* -R -H /S

    DEL C:\*.*

    I used to love DOS, but that was quite a while ago.

  15. He seems to think he’s helping you with removing viruses… but none of those files typically reside directly in the C drive’s root directory? And the slashes are wrong for Windows? This will result in an error.

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