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[-] sgtlion@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

Including to vastly more malware ads..

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

Gonna be really funny if it causes something that makes the whole crowdstrike thing look tame by comparison

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

I once stood behind someone and watched them click on a banner ad that says “DOWNLOAD NOW!” while trying to download Notepad++

They didn’t see it on the list of apps, so they refreshed the page and clicked on a different download banner ad and installed a second malware lol

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

almost all of those general websites for winblows executables seem to have ads pretending to be download buttons, like 100% of the time, it seems like natural fauna of the windows ecosystem at this point.

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