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I wrote a program (not a virus) on my computer. Windows deleted the exe immediately after I compiled it because it was “an unverified application from an unknown source”.
It didn’t bother deleting the batch script I downloaded from an email that would delete all files if run. Apparently that one was fine.
Well that script was ran on enough other computers, so the magic algorithm decided if everyone else ran it, it must be fine.
What language was it written in? I read that Microsoft Defender likes to flag the baked-in runtime of some languages as malware because they commonly shows up in actual nalware.
C#. The language made by Microsoft.
That is incredibly ironic.
It relies on the .NET runtime already existing on the system, so it can’t even be excused as a false positive mistaking an embedded language runtime as malware.
The script was from a verified source.
My mom is a verified source too, but that doesn’t mean I should be trusted not to break your PC…
(By which I mean formatting the disc and installing Mint. The data loss is your fault, really, for not having backups.)
I can tell this meme is old because windows does the same shit MacOS does now and has been since at least Windows 10
Nah I use both pretty regularly and I’m fairly sure macOS still makes you do the “nope sorry, press ok, go into system settings, security panel, become admin and click trust this unknown publisher” thing
Windows still just does the same safescreen thing they’ve been doing for ages now: “windows stopped this unknown thing from running, wanna run it anyway?”
Good luck, I’m behind 7 Commodore 64s
WINDOWS PROTECTED YOUR COMPUTER 🍑
We have detected 🍆 and unverified app attempting to run on
ouryour device and stopped it.you are being protected, please don’t resist.
IT professional here with 20+ years work experience. Not once have I ever met another tech that liked Apple. Personally, I despise them. Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price. And yes, I have seen viruses on Macs.
They’re just really good at advertising to people who don’t understand technology.
Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price.
From the user perspective, enterprise managed Windows is locked down, too, and somehow less reliable.
Most of the software engineers I know in FAANG and similar tier companies use Macbooks to program. Poke around a coffee shop in the bay area during a weekday and look around.
And personally, I switched to Mac about 15 years ago mainly because dependency management and the shell made more sense to me coming from Linux. Windows has always been trash, and most other non-Apple OEMs make the actual physical laptop experience worse (hinges, behavior on closing the lid, trackpad behavior and size, power management, display quality in both brightness and pixel density, webcam/audio behavior).
Long time and still current hater of all things Apple here.
I have to use a locked down enterprise managed Windows 11 laptop for work. If given the choice of that or a locked down enterprise managed Mac, I’d switch in a heartbeat.
The main thing Apple has going for them is their UI/UX is great for the average person, and all of their products just work with each other.
But yeah, from a sysadmin point of view it’s garbage.
sudo apt-get install your_mom
I’m going to mount your_mom on my /
I tried running it on your_mom and it threw up an error: “No space left on disk.”
“Can I delete root directory, please 🥺🥺?”
“Of course 👍”
Me: “Do the thing.”
OS: “no.”
Me: “Fuck you. Sudo do the thing.”
OS: “yes sir. Right away sir.”
That is the way it should be.
Sudo gives you slavery right /s
Back when I was a linux noob I uninstalled python since I had some package issues. Lol, lmao even
And you learned an important lesson that day.
That was the moment I understood Linux yielded the user with great power and great responsibility. I instantly fell in love and have been distro hopping ever since
