>pirated video games and applications for almost 20 years
>never got a single virus from any of it
>cousin clicks one link on Facebook
>malware installs on Chrome and automatically posts links on Facebook, which gets more relatives clicking on it and installing malware, and all their friends, etc.
How the fuck does this even happen? Can someone just explain this to me?
Their common sense is awfully out of date
>>56559847
They don't event have one installed.
That's the problem of modern software, most users are fucking retarded.
>>56559822
ublocko, nigga
>chrome
>no adblock
>Javascript enabled
>clicking random Facebook links
Gee, I wonder what the problem here is
>>56559822
>How the fuck does this even happen? Can someone just explain this to me?
PEBKAC
>>56559822
Because the malware you got utilized a rootkit and has been sitting part of some Argentinean's botnet for the last few years.
Whereas your cousin clicked on some more obvious one that doesn't mask itself at all