The fact that Windows hasn’t solved the “fake extension” scam is wild. You can’t make people not click stuff, obviously. But you absolutely could identify double extensions clearly intended to confuse people and give some kind of “this isn’t a PDF” warning.
Oh shit. Yes. I need you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del while pulling the power cord or else the virus will steal your RAM and upload your printer to a criminal server in the cloud!
Where have you been for the past decade? The trend is the exact opposite. Dumb everything down until there’s nothing left to understand, in the name of “usability”.
The fact that Windows hasn’t solved the “fake extension” scam is wild. You can’t make people not click stuff, obviously. But you absolutely could identify double extensions clearly intended to confuse people and give some kind of “this isn’t a PDF” warning.
They’re too busy finding new ways to inject telemetry and ads into your os, and degrade your experience. It takes a lot of resources to do this.
Edit: ‘to’ to ‘too’. I blame fatigue.
It’s so dumb that Windows hides file extensions by default. They could just flip a toggle.
But don’t you understand how confusing and scary those cryptic three letter strings are to normal people?? 😱
Administrator Plopp, what do I do if it has a 4 letter extension? That .jpeg is a virus right?
-sincerely, The dumbest user you know
Oh shit. Yes. I need you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del while pulling the power cord or else the virus will steal your RAM and upload your printer to a criminal server in the cloud!
It’s not the 90’s anymore. There’s no excuse for not having basic understanding of the tools you use in life.
Where have you been for the past decade? The trend is the exact opposite. Dumb everything down until there’s nothing left to understand, in the name of “usability”.
When MS chose to hide file extensions by default I fucking lost my mind because of the malware\virus implications… idiots.
They’re incompetent