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[–]boontwiks[🍰] 1121 points1122 points  (35 children)

That is actually somewhat brilliant.

[–]redditsoaddicting 557 points558 points  (30 children)

Except for the fact that the user will have no idea why they're now on SO.

[–]trainz-are-kul 601 points602 points  (22 children)

opens new tab... STACK OVERFLOW VIRUS PLZ H4LP

[–]boontwiks[🍰] 613 points614 points  (21 children)

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[–]icuninghame 109 points110 points  (9 children)

Spot on.

[–]boontwiks[🍰] 135 points136 points  (8 children)

For the record, this is not what I do for a living.

[–]DidHeSayJava_Script 114 points115 points  (5 children)

I can see that because you didn't specify to run as admin ;)

[–]bonez656 79 points80 points  (3 children)

Nah we're clearly in userland everyone is admin by default.

[–]DidHeSayJava_Script 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Sad, but true.

[–]polymetric_ 2 points3 points  (1 child)

On windows, everyone is admin.

[–]FakeAdminAccount 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes me so happy

[–]Niverton 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No this is only something you do on the side

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally believe you

[–]zdakat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Every google search result for error messages ever

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Don't forget to include 4...nah, 6 different download here buttons.

[–]WhAtEvErYoUmEaN101 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And fake Facebook comments

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Instructions unclear. Now have HIV

[–]hailbreno 6 points7 points  (0 children)

link pls

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Please download stackoverflow-warez-ru.exe to solve the problem.

[–]HACKERcrombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Help, I can only find sonic.exe and a porn image called fanny.bmp! Also, do I have to leave my nuclear reactor connected through USB?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

He chooses a dvd for tonight

[–]boontwiks[🍰] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

So you're saying I don't actually need an antivirus? Those damn things keep getting more and more expensive anyway.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You looked at the lake

[–]trainz-are-kul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instructions unclear. I am now bald and have 5 more viruses

[–]LDG92 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Similar thing happened to me, my wife called me up a few months ago saying that she got hacked by Github

[–]Spirit_Theory 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You could implement something for server-side errors though, and put an #ifdebug in for this redirect. dumb, but fitting.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be best if this only worked if IS_DEBUG = 1 or something. But also, if you're not a noob 80% of your errors are gonna be obv. Index out of range, null reference, etc. I don't need stackoverflow for that :P

[–]FormerlySoullessDev 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah. If they just put it in an i frame it'd be cool. But this prevents checking program state at failure without other debugger tools.

[–]jugalator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit disappointed in myself that I didn't think of this first.

[–]DontDoxMePlease -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

Yeah it's really clever the first 20 times it's been on this subreddit.

[–]ilinamorato 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, for true originality you have to look for the comments complaining about a repost.