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minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·3 days agoI’ve said it for decades. It checks all the boxes for being classified as a virus.
minus-squareAce T'Ken@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-22 days agoIt self-propagates? Well that’s new.
minus-squareBlackVenom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 days agoWindows 7 users found themselves on 10 somehow
minus-squareAce T'Ken@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoUpdating 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
minus-squaregunny@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThe "YOU WILL UPGRADE! YOU WILL BE HAPPY! YOU WILL NOT COMPLAIN! they feed people is sad
I’ve said it for decades. It checks all the boxes for being classified as a virus.
It self-propagates? Well that’s new.
Windows 7 users found themselves on 10 somehow
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
The "YOU WILL UPGRADE! YOU WILL BE HAPPY! YOU WILL NOT COMPLAIN! they feed people is sad