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flux293m on Jan 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software

Don't they? Pirates have been around since long before viruses really became a problem. What was their motivation then?

pjmlp on Jan 26, 2017 [–]

Virus were already a problem on MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga, Acorn, Mac OS.

Probably only during the 8 bit computers it wasn't a problem.

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