Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware

https://uk.pcmag.com/security/163315/warning-facebook-ads-for-free-windows-11-upgrade-will-infect-pcs-with-malware

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MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 127 pts · 174d (2 replies)

So it installs legitimate Windows 11 then?

FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 173d

Get out of my head lmao

HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 171d

Ha-ha, classic

Schorsch@feddit.org · 55 pts · 174d

[This could be a joke about Windows 11 being malware in the first place]

blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 173d (2 replies)

This reads like an Onion joke.

grue@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 173d (1 reply)

'Cause it's got layers!

There's at least four different reasons this nonsense wouldn't affect me, LOL. (I don't use Facebook, don't want Windows 11, don't see ads because they're blocked, and can't run Windows malware because Linux.)

Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 173d

Tough life..

Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 174d

Or worse, with windows

Edit: 2/3 of the other comments at the time of writing are making basically the same joke. I love Lemmy

krimson@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 173d (1 reply)

If you're still on facebook you deserve a free windows 11 upgrade to be honest.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 173d

Or Instagram for that matter.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 26 pts · 173d (1 reply)

So, Windows AND another malware?

SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 173d
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Damage@feddit.it · 23 pts · 173d

I'm soooo removed from this issue it's almost funny

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 173d

Stop using Facebook, ffs

Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 173d

Windows? Facebook?

lol

myrmidex@belgae.social · 7 pts · 174d

Perfect. Right in the center of the idiots' Venn diagram.

ReCursing@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 174d

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 174d (1 reply)

That’s a silly malware vector though, because everyone still stuck on windows prefers W10 to W11

thejml@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 173d

The kind of people that fall for this probably has a good overlap with those sick of the "upgrade!!!!" Windows Popups.

TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 173d
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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 174d

So.... the advertiser is Microsoft, and the malware is Windows 11 Pro. Ohh I'm so surprised

NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 3 pts · 174d

Fuck Windows to hell.

FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 173d

The oldest trick in the book

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 173d (1 reply)

That’s terrible bait, surprised if it’s working.

JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 173d

I imagine a good number of people will fall for this. Tech illiteracy is the norm.

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 174d (1 reply)

My Mac and I would like to see it try. Malware? It's a Mac. (Mac malware exists, but this is probably/likely made for Windows.) Actual Windows? Not in this Christian server M2 Pro.

vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 173d

You can run actual Windows in a hypervisor, and have all malware you want for everything inside that hypervisor, and also hypervisor escape is a thing if you have something like guest additions with access to host filesystem etc.

Attack surface is smaller.