• BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I haven’t actually worried about a virus on a computer for like 15 years. Never installed third party antivirus either.

    I think for all intents and purposes it is kind of a solved problem. You have to do something really stupid to get one, and worrying about a virus isn’t a reason that people would normally give to not use a technology either.

    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Damn, this is a fucking brain dead take. It doesn’t even warrant a proper response.

      Its “solved” because of decades of ongoing research and the fact that OS’s like Windows have an antivirus built in that regularly get updates.

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        4 hours ago

        There’s whole industry to solve this problem and yet there are many millions affected each year meaning it’s not even close to being solved. Maybe quite the other way around judging how companies like Google recently said it’s a big problem for them.

        The dude above says it themselves: you need to be smart to not fall for some malware(which they are wrong about, there many examples of smart people falling to phishing). Luckily LLMs are perfectly smart and never do stupid shit, right?

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        3 hours ago

        For users, yeah. I think you are mixing up things that developers have to worry about and things that users have to work about? Maybe some cognitive issues?