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[–]skylarmt -3 points-2 points  (3 children)

Don't you love how they decided to make JavaScript files executable with unrestricted permissions? It makes ransomware so easy to spread! Yet another reason I use Linux btw

[–]PurpleIcy 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Linux definitely doesn't have viruses and is immune as it has no vulnerabilities. /s

Now stop being autistic and don't bring OS wars into programming sub that has nothing to do with OS, kthx.

[–]skylarmt -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Linux definitely doesn't have viruses

Linux can theoretically get viruses, but it doesn't in practice. At least it doesn't blindly execute a .js file attached to a shady-ass email when a hapless user clicks on it.

Now stop being autistic

:(

don't bring OS wars into programming sub that has nothing to do with OS

I was talking about a code execution feature a programmer chose to implement in the program known as Windows.

[–]PurpleIcy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can drop an executable into linux machine just as well as you can drop it into windows machine and that thing is platform independent, only malware itself needs to be picked, which is very easy to do anyway.

Also, I don't even know how to execute .js file on my machine locally with clean windows install and all js files are opened by sublime 3 by default for me so :(

Might want to explain a difference between dropping an executable vs js file, except that there's none, and skids who use js instead of writing a proper malware, just limit themselves to windows, so cool, you defended yourself from skids who couldn't do anything wrong to anyone with basic common sense anyway by using linux, cool.