You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by venomsnake on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:27PM (#6569604)

Yeah but ... in Linux at least you have to set +x yourself on the downloads. Which is basic sanity check.

In windows there are too many ways to get elevated. And only one level of elevation.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by pgeorgi on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:38AM (#6570104)

not as if users care about watching out before setting +x.

After all, there are tons of popular projects requesting users to run "curl http://... | sudo sh" and consider that a good idea, too.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by Pxtl on Friday October 18, 2013 @08:47AM (#6571038)

Exactly. This is just a more elaborate form of Windows little pop-up-boxes asking you "are you sure you want to...."

I keep trying to teach my nephews that the default answer to that question is no... but of course, "yes" is the way you get anything done.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by pjmlp on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:23AM (#6570070)

Normal users just set them without thinking twice about it.

Do you know one of the most asked questions in Mac OS X user forums from new users is how to disable root?

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