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[–] beetus 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Installing a rootkit on people's computers in 2005.

Not to downplay the shitty situation with hd2, but uh, got any examples from the last 5 to 10 years instead of pointing to something that happened nearly two decades ago?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No, I haven't looked. Why? Do you think the business truly learned from their "mistake" and will do better by their customers? hahaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I assume they ask because software security and stability has generally improved over the last 20 years.

[–] extant 6 points 6 months ago

And then it goes right out the window the first time a consumer clicks yes for uac to give admin privileges to a piece of software they don't understand that can receive instructions remotely from the internet.

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