[djur]

Because they don't understand any of what you just said, and they think that malware can harm their computer.

[teakettle42]

> … and they think that malware can harm their computer.

To be fair, it actually can — there’s plenty of writable flash on motherboards and in peripherals where malware could persist across OS reinstallation.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

To add to this, isn’t a computer in this context some combination of hardware and software.

And malware is a contraction oh malicious-software.

And then is it not true that malware does, by definition, harm the users experience in someway, whether that’s detectable by the user or not.

Splitting technical hairs is entertaining though.