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A comment on Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency.

Re:Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and La... by kernelPan1c on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:16PM (#16450098)
How could Facebook detect an infected machine?

> A Facebook spokesperson said Charity may have been asked to download the wrong software because some malware can spoof what kind of computer a person is running

Just changed the user agent?

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Re:Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and La... by monochromatic on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:01PM (#16450397)
Maybe detect browser extensions that malware might drop? Other than that, no idea.
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