• Vince@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this considered a bad thing? I mean I haven’t had a computer virus in a decade, so it seems to be working.

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not inherently bad, at least from the user’s perspective, but Windows Defender will make you click “more info” or something before giving you the “run anyways” button since it thinks it’s a risk. I’ve never gotten a virus doing this, though

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        1 year ago

        On MacOs it’s so stupid. Instead of double-clicking on the new program to open it, you need to right-click and hit “Open” from the drop down menu. Only then does it even give you the option to open the program anyway.

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      1 year ago

      I too enjoy having to get Microsoft’s permission to execute a program that I wrote