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Hah, the Linux version points you to the original website (only the Mac and Windows versions appear to be modified)! The year of the Linux desktop is truly here

• amarant 8y ago
  doesnt that just imply that these scammers thought the linux userbase to be too small to be worthwhile? the comparatively small userbase is actually an underappreciated security feature of linux ;)
  • slipstream- 8y ago
    not the website owner but people involved in the PUP ecosystem. i'm sure that if installcore supported linux, then the linux binaries would also be bundlers.
  • taneq 8y ago
    Or that Linux users would instantly raise a hue and cry on seeing ads?
    • PascLeRasc 8y ago
      Kind of like how scammers use bad grammar on purpose to weed out the people too smart to be a victim.
      • taneq 8y ago
        Yes, now that you mention it - they deliberately tried to design their dragnet to exclude victims who were likely to be problematic. :)
  • elygre 8y ago
    Isn’t that the infamous “security by obscurity”?
    • yifanl 8y ago
      More or less. As I recall, the few Mac home users in the mid-2000s were talking about how Macs couldn't get viruses as a selling point.
      • zajd 8y ago
        A few home users? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw
  • adtac 8y ago
    No, I meant a tongue-in-cheek statement that Linux is the only worthwhile desktop because it's not affected :P