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Yeah! I recall discovering recently my father had a coin miner malware on his laptop, which had been acting slow for a while (a year). Upon discovery, my moth
by RajT88 4y ago
Yeah! I recall discovering recently my father had a coin miner malware on his laptop, which had been acting slow for a while (a year).
Upon discovery, my mother gave him some hard side-eye. But I explained the whole malvertising thing, and that seemed to placate her.
Don't get me wrong; he probably was looking at naughty pictures. But I actually think he's more likely to have gotten that from a legit site.
- acdha 4y agoI’m reminded of the time I opened nytimes.com and the ad Google served started a download for a .exe file. It wasn’t well targeted to my Mac but if you do that to a million people the number who’ll think it’s a trustworthy site and run it will be greater than zero.