• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I think the title indicates that it’s like the malware known as “Christmas.exe”.

    Edit: I have too much faith in humanity…

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      3 days ago

      The title is pushing the narrative that “real companies” doing hostile bullshit isn’t “real malware”.

      When companies ship malware, it should be called malware.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      3 days ago

      From the article:

      Even worse, the malware-looking Christmas wreath is linked to a process called “Christmas.exe.”

      So the process was actually called that. It popped up on my machine this morning and I immediately started scanning the whole system for malware and searching to see if anyone else had this problem.