• mayo_cider [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    It's honestly impressive how many ways there are to hide those just in the browser's configs

    • roux [he/him, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      To be fair her teaching assistant put it on there and she has a tendency of clicking on everything and just isn't computer literate at all so it was more of an inevitability than anything. It installed a reskinned Chromium that redirected searched so it wasn't super bad. is ran MalwareBytes and got a few more possible threats too. Glad it wasn't anything super severe. I'm out of practice lol.

      • mayo_cider [he/him]
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        edit-2
        4 months ago

        Yeah, thankfully the modern ones are usually pretty easy to clean, I remember searching through configs for variations of the fake search engine