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by pricechild 3284 days ago
Anecdotally, I've seen banks claim the reason for $something_bad was a virus on a chromebook.

Whether or not there's 'been a single case of fraud or loss attributed to "screen-scraping"', I believe most banks are more than happy to blame you by default and make it difficult/expensive to resolve.

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Most people don't really distinguish between viruses and worms, and there's been worms on Unix systems before (hi RTM!)