Comment on What it takes to close Microsoft Edge (⏩ 2x)

stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ding ding ding! OP drank the Kool Aid and felt like they needed to completely remove Edge, they downloaded a tool made to bait gullible users and they’re now stuck with a malware and won’t admit it.

  The question OP needs to ask themselves is, why ask for opinions when they will ignore all of them?

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope, the tool is FOSS MSEdgeRedirect, very well known and praised. I think it’s purely my config mistake with no third-party wrongdoing and I will live with the consequence of Edge being slightly more annoying whenever I accidentally click it.

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    • ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did you a: make sure to verify the code before running it on your computer or did you just do : b run the file on your computer and give it unfeathered access to your computer I’m assuming you did b

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        B, of course, I don’t want every install to take 4 hours.

        For antivirus, the company provides ESET but I also use VirusTotal and a WIP common sense engine.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In a way what you do proves vendors like MS or Apple right in doing what they do, btw. They lock systems down to prevent average users from fucking up their systems with stuff they download from the internet.

      Forcing a specific browser (see Apple just enforcing it all be safari) to prevent the user getting around security checks you can build relying on that one browser is just one step of that.

      And every time someone blindly shoots themselves in the foot with a tool then tries to blame the company for what they themselves did wrong, the number used in meetings to justify more programmer time spent on locking it all down goes up by 1.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, my default browser is Firefox and EdgeRemover (oops, misremembered the name) MSEdgeRedirect (which is FOSS of course, would not install such thing otherwise) does work, in a way – all Help pages, Start Menu searches etc. get redirected to Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I thought it would prevent Edge from opening at all. I don’t think it’s a browser hijacker.

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  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And I’m pretty sure you have no idea what you’re talking about, and I have a career with this stuff.

    Figure it out yourself now smart ass.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Duh

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