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When a Virus targets I.E. or Office macros or other software, in general it all gets clumped up as Windows viruses and no one bats an eye. IMO I think the plat
by worewood 4y ago
When a Virus targets I.E. or Office macros or other software, in general it all gets clumped up as Windows viruses and no one bats an eye.
IMO I think the platform the binary payload is targeting is a valid criteria to characterize a threat, so no problem in calling it a Linux virus, just as we have no problem calling those "Windows viruses".
- cutemonster 4y agoOffice and IE are from Microsoft too, so makes sense to clump them together with Windows. -- You could call them "Microsoft vulnerabilities". But if it was WP on Windows, that'd be different