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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 year ago (25 children)

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.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Shit, I remember having to wipe my boss's computer back in '03 because he clicked on an attachment called something along the lines of "bigtiddies.mpeg.exe" or some shit.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Shit, I remember having to wipe my boss’s computer back in '03 because he clicked on an attachment called something along the lines of “bigtiddies.mpeg.exe” or some shit.

I could almost hear The Office theme song playing while I was reading that

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