[amarant]

doesnt that just imply that these scammers thought the linux userbase to be too small to be worthwhile?

the comparatively small userbase is actually an underappreciated security feature of linux ;)

[taneq]

Or that Linux users would instantly raise a hue and cry on seeing ads?

[PascLeRasc]

Kind of like how scammers use bad grammar on purpose to weed out the people too smart to be a victim.

[taneq]

Yes, now that you mention it - they deliberately tried to design their dragnet to exclude victims who were likely to be problematic. :)

[elygre]

Isn’t that the infamous “security by obscurity”?

[yifanl]

More or less.

As I recall, the few Mac home users in the mid-2000s were talking about how Macs couldn't get viruses as a selling point.

[zajd]

A few home users?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw

[adtac]

No, I meant a tongue-in-cheek statement that Linux is the only worthwhile desktop because it's not affected :P

[slipstream-]

not the website owner but people involved in the PUP ecosystem.

i'm sure that if installcore supported linux, then the linux binaries would also be bundlers.