General DiscussionEnglish • 2 years ago

Just got a notice from my antivirus when I reloaded the lemmy.world Local Communities page, that I was protected by being blocked by something called derp.foo botnet.

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Just got a notice from my antivirus when I reloaded the lemmy.world Local Communities page, that I was protected by being blocked by something called derp.foo botnet.

General DiscussionEnglish • 2 years ago

Is the Communities page, infected?

***** update: a comment reply said that derp foo is a name of a lemmy instance, so i’m sort of positive this was a false positive for a community hosted there getting flagged. what an idiotic thing to name your web asset, as it must get flagged all the time.

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3•2 years ago
Not as bad as mcafee tbh
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  That’s like saying cancer isn’t as bad as AIDS

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