Timeline for How should I have known the Duck was an April Fools prank and not a browser infection?
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| Apr 1, 2018 at 4:01 | history | edited | I say Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 20:19 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski | My point is: this only works because there are people like me who "still don't get it", including antimalware software developers. If everyone thought like you then targeting this site would be a great investment of development resources. Imagine a casino that can nail every cheater. No cheater goes there because it's a waste of effort. "Whoever is here is not a cheater" is essentially true; but if the casino makes it their method of recognizing cheaters, then it will become the best place for a cheater. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 19:09 | history | migrated | from superuser.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 31, 2018 at 18:47 | comment | added | LPChip | @KamilMaciorowski Yes, given that it is site-specific, the chance of it being malware is slim to none, especially on SuperUser where the poweruser is visiting. If it happened on every site, then I would know it was on my system, or my browser. But given that it only happens on Stack Exchange sites, it was quite obvious a feature on this site. Sorry, I don't know how else to explain, if you still don't get it. Malware targetting a specific site just is a huge waste of development resources, because the chance an SE user gets infected with this malware is slim. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 18:15 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski | Why? Because you just said you wouldn't recognize it as malware. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | LPChip | Why on earth would malware specifically target SE? That just makes no sense. Especially given that SE is a site for the power user, where most users will be able to understand and deal with spyware. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 17:09 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski | Couldn't malware detect I'm browsing SE and only then manifest itself? | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 17:04 | history | answered | LPChip | CC BY-SA 3.0 |