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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives

www.gdatasoftware.com

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This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives

www.gdatasoftware.com

Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Procolored: Printer company serves malware für six months, claims "false positive" warnings
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What do a coin stealer, an abandoned backdoor and a file infector have in common? They all resided in the download section on the website of a printer company - stowed away in installer files for drivers and utilities. We took a closer look.
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    It was not

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      … c/whoosh?

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        No this is an example where sarcasm and stupidity can’t be distinguished via text alone.

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          No, it’s obvious to anyone with a brain. If the commenter seriously thought it might have been a false positive when they read the original comment, they never would have relayed their thought the way they did in their reply, and it is so clearly a reference to the content of the post that to analyze it even that deeply is overkill. To anyone reading this who is a native English speaker: if you think that comment needs a “/s”, you need to work on your reading comprehension. Read things more carefully.

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          Would have thought it was an obvious play on the headline, but I accept that sheer stupidity does exist.

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            Poe’s law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law

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              Mobile wikipedia on computers looks nice

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            Yeah unfortunately

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