• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is the main takeaway that people seem to be missing: follow good computer hygiene, and you’ll be fine.

    Keep your shit updated, and don’t download/run things you don’t trust. Keep an unintrusive anti-virus running in the background as a backup just in case there’s a supply chain attack, but don’t rely on it to make your decisions on whether to open a file or not.

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      8 months ago

      golden rules of PC hygine:

      don’t use an admin account as your main account

      if you haven’t directly triggered it yourself, the answer to that pop-up is “no”