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Yeah... && my boss isn't exactly better. Just before the trial version of the security solution of her choosing was about to expire, I prompted her to purchase the license. After some five reminders, spanning across roughly a month, I ceased the reminders, given absolutely no positive reaction. I'd heard something akin to "I don't foresee us being targeted by hackers, so Windows Defender will be sufficient." ...god damn.
...given how nowadays I'm working from home w/ this shit behind _my_ network, I chose to purchase my own subscription.
Sure, the situation should've never taken place, but I prefer protecting my personal hardware in case work PC is ever targeted.
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10 points for next century option.
A few years ago, I had been talking to this coworker... He told me this: "I decided to use Windows Defender. The other solutions are just snake oil.".
...umm... wow, yeah. I chose _not_ to start an argument w/ a retard.
Anyway, I needed to send him a video, but its size was above the 8 MB limit of a free plan, so I needed to get creative, given how I knew he wouldn't have any usual tools I'd use to split the file. Since 7-Zip was kind of the norm in my company, I chose to use that one. I compressed the file && split it into two chunks below the limit. When I sent him the files, he told me that his Windows Defender detected malware...
/* At the time, I had no idea, but he must've seen that catch-all warning from discord to be careful about files from the Internet. https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... . */
The retard failed to actually read the damned thing, got scared && thought I was trying to hack him. It took me way too long, sometime between 10-30 minutes to convince him that it was just a video that had been compressed && split. All he needed to do was to open the damned thing in 7-Zip && extract it. Fucking hell...
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