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minus-squaregunny@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 month agoFinally 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
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoI’ve said it for decades. It checks all the boxes for being classified as a virus.
minus-squareAce T'Ken@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoIt self-propagates? Well that’s new.
minus-squareBlackVenom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWindows 7 users found themselves on 10 somehow
minus-squaregunny@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThe "YOU WILL UPGRADE! YOU WILL BE HAPPY! YOU WILL NOT COMPLAIN! they feed people is sad
minus-squareAce T'Ken@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month 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
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
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
The "YOU WILL UPGRADE! YOU WILL BE HAPPY! YOU WILL NOT COMPLAIN! they feed people is sad
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