4 points

Way back in 2003, I had a school project partner over to do some work on a project. They had a floppy that was infected with some malicious stuff and had planned to utterly trash my computer with it. I only found out at a later date because some guys were asking me questions about my computer, and someone spilled the beans whenever they realised that my computer wasn’t infected and was indeed still functioning completely fine…

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You accidentally click it and wine starts launching:

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0 points

still has power if you email or share it to someone else after you downloaded it

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20 points

False sense of security. You accidentally downloaded a virus that doesn’t work on your system… What kind of habits and hygiene are you rolling with on a day to day basis?

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7 points

It’s your grandma, you gave her ubuntu and everything has been good for a while.

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5 points

Malware for Linux is a thing. I see it every day.

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