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Originally Posted by Quoth
It constantly amazed me when I was in IT support that people would simply click on dialog boxes "That got in the way". Or Click links on emails or open attachments without checking what they were.
They'd also rather believe a random website or friend or half remembered stuff at school than the IT support.
And then also not know the difference between clicking on something that loads in an application and something that executes (binary or script). Proper training makes a big difference. Not the sort invented by marketing that tours all the features of an application.
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Fortunately uBlock Origin takes care of most of these malware scripts and I never see them (although they would mostly likely be made for Windows anyhow). I remember a couple years ago (maybe more) that I got a message on my Linux computer that I had been taken over by ransomware. I'm guessing that might have been true if I had been using Windows -- on Linux it was just "nice try bozo breath" kind of thing. That's another thing about Linux that helps in its malware fight — there's so much variety of distributions (and installation methods) that it really doesn't pay to write malware for Linux. So, what some people see as a weakness ("fragmentation"), I see as a good thing (variety and choice). No one person can control Linux. You have the choice to use what you want, instead of what Microsoft or Apple wants you to want.