• gunny@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Finally someone who agrees with me! Windows itself is a virus that has spread too wide, but thankfully we got a cure that is slowely but surely starting to work

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      3 days ago

      I’ve said it for decades. It checks all the boxes for being classified as a virus.

          • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.ca
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            2 days ago

            Updating to a new version isn’t self-propagation though. Maybe if it randomly installed itself overtop of Linux or MacOS, they’d have a point.

            It also doesn’t modify other computer programs and maliciously insert its own code into those programs or require a host program.

            So I guess maybe it doesn’t have… Any features of a virus at all.

            It just sucks.

            Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

          • gunny@lemmy.today
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            3 days ago

            The "YOU WILL UPGRADE! YOU WILL BE HAPPY! YOU WILL NOT COMPLAIN! they feed people is sad