Windows users have recently begun mass-reporting that Microsoft's Defender antivirus program, which is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 by default, is
If we define malware as something having functions to harm the user and not only things build soley for this purpose, then of course Windows is malware.
oh noes, my karma! Oh wait - there’s no such thing on lemmy :)
In all honesty, I think most people downvoting did not fully understand my comment in relation to the one I was replying to. I think they misread it as “people with half a brain cell or more don’t use windows” and pushed the arrow down.
At this point, Microsoft Windows itself can basically be classified as malware
If we define malware as something having functions to harm the user and not only things build soley for this purpose, then of course Windows is malware.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
Windows updates are literally harder to stop than actual viruses.
When Windows 95 was in beta I would install it and next day it was dead. We finally realized that the BIOS was killing it.
Wat?
it is - by everyone with half a brain cell or more. Unfortunately, that’s not the majority of users by a long shot.
Incredible the downvotes you get. It’s true. Windows literally spies on you
oh noes, my karma! Oh wait - there’s no such thing on lemmy :) In all honesty, I think most people downvoting did not fully understand my comment in relation to the one I was replying to. I think they misread it as “people with half a brain cell or more don’t use windows” and pushed the arrow down.
This is probably it haha