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by thaumaturgy 4213 days ago
> banner from Google saying, "Hey, you might have a virus, someone reported you to this list."

Unfortunately this is already in use with some malicious ads as well as phone scams to get people to give remote access to overseas tech centers that then scam them into paying good money for nothing.

To date the only tech line about this is, "nobody legitimate will ever contact you to tell you you're infected with a virus."

So I don't know how you could develop trust in that environment.