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[–] TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml 126 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At this point, Microsoft Windows itself can basically be classified as malware

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

If we define malware as something having functions to harm the user and not only things build soley for this purpose, then of course Windows is malware.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When Windows 95 was in beta I would install it and next day it was dead. We finally realized that the BIOS was killing it.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jcg@halubilo.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is the number 95 like a kill command?

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Windows updates are literally harder to stop than actual viruses.