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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoI installed all kinds of stuff, but the metric was if it slowed down my PC or especially my games. That’d get me to uninstall, run antivirus and/or anti-malware, or even totally reinstall Windows real quick.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoExactly! We weren’t yet used to companies spying on us and computers were on the slow side anyhow
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoYeah, I would install anything that just used 0 resources when it’s not running. But that’s not what malware does
I installed all kinds of stuff, but the metric was if it slowed down my PC or especially my games. That’d get me to uninstall, run antivirus and/or anti-malware, or even totally reinstall Windows real quick.
Exactly! We weren’t yet used to companies spying on us and computers were on the slow side anyhow
Yeah, I would install anything that just used 0 resources when it’s not running. But that’s not what malware does