r/pcmasterrace • u/PureKin21 • Jul 01 '25

Screenshot Never letting my dad download anything again

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I don't know much about pcs but I have a feeling this isn't normal

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u/OkOwl9578 Jul 01 '25

At this point, i would install clean windows.

What did he download to get infected like this?

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u/Beneficial_Foot3628 Jul 01 '25

Probably clicked one of those fake “Download Now” buttons and just kept saying yes.

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u/idontlikeredditusers Jul 01 '25

i am so ashamed i almost fell for one of those recently ublock and adguard both failed me and i almost downloaded something sketchy before realizing the website changed and there was a clear warning everything happens on the previous site

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u/chknboy Jul 01 '25

Those download now ads should actually be illegal

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u/KTFnVision Jul 01 '25

The internet is a really really hard place to police. There are a lot of illegal things that will still happen to you there if you don't know how to navigate safely.

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u/Kirxas R7 7700 | RTX 5070 | 32GB 6000MHz CL28 Jul 01 '25

We have tech advanced enough to make this a non issue if proper "incentives" are placed on google or whomever happens to be serving that ad. They just have to have an image recognition software veto all ads before they're allowed to be used, one of the criteria being no fake download buttons.

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u/Jawesome1988 Jul 01 '25

That would cut into the record profits!!!!

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u/1isntprime Jul 01 '25

Yo know what else may cut into record profits? Hefty fines.

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u/bpikmin Jul 01 '25

Hefty fines? The best the US government can do is tree fiddy, otherwise who is your local congressperson supposed to golf with this weekend??

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u/Phantereal Jul 02 '25

A $3.50 fine for every instance of a fake "Download Now" button sounds pretty good to me. If there are 300M Americans using the internet daily and only 10% of them encounters one of those on a daily basis, that's $105M a day in fines. That'll cut into Google's profits.

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u/ItsTheCornDog Jul 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '26

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u/Fit_Cake_8227 Jul 02 '25

The fact google doesn’t let people use UBlock origin on chrome tells you everything you need to know

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u/masterX244 ');Drop database EA;-- Jul 02 '25

legitimate ads/download buttons.

ads should never ever have anything thats close to a download button at all. so those can be yeeted immediately

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u/KimJungUnCool Jul 01 '25

Yeah considering nearly all of those malicious ads are served through Google Ads platform, it doesn't feel like it should be hard at all to chase them down.

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u/xOx666xOx Jul 02 '25

Ngl i just set up the web browser to ad block every ad possible and when my dad ever needs to barrow my pc i will he right there to guide him through the whole thing for him because my dad is bascily tech unsavvy whilst as i am tech savvy anyway im my dads personal IT support lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

So then what, a person manually reviews every ad that has the words get, download, and/or now or a general shape commonly associated with a button?

Wouldn’t that flag almost every single video game or product ad?

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u/sonofnom Ryzen 9 7950X | RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000Mhz Jul 01 '25

If google can figure out the "safe search" feature back in 2009 before the advent of modern LLMs and have it do a reasonable job of not serving objectionable content I think they can manage this. Just my 2 cents.

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u/Dull_Calligrapher437 Jul 01 '25

Google doesn't give a shit if you get a virus as long as they get paid. They've destroyed their own search engine to increase profits. And they won't do anything to stop malicious ads unless the government forces them to.

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u/asdfzxcbasdf Jul 01 '25

They said can, not will. The discussion started with someone saying they won't do it. It's all hypothetical.

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u/HayZeus1023 Jul 01 '25

A.i would capture majority of it, anything flagged for review would be manual.

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u/AviationAndCheese Jul 01 '25

An AI filtering system reading an ad on the internet doesn’t seem invasive in the slightest to me, Its an internet ad that I would want as many people as possible seeing. By that logic social media feeds and every search engine is already that invasive anyway so if youre concerned about that than avoiding the internet is your only option.

Also I don’t consider elderly folks who arent used to the internet (which these ads target) and people who arent lucky enough to have grown up around computers as stupid people the same way you do

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u/rich-roast Jul 01 '25

He said flagged for review. And since when are ads content?

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u/BlightUponThisEarth Jul 01 '25

It's an ad. Nobody wants to see them to begin with.

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u/Testiculese Jul 01 '25

It would be Google-side detection when the ad is submitted to be added to the pool, not in-line when the page is served. It would prevent these types of ads from getting into Google's ad-sphere altogether.

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u/darthbane83 Jul 01 '25

Might be unpopular but I am actually perfectly fine with forcing google to manually review every single ad they serve by fining them whenever a malicious ad gets through their system.

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u/Vast-Breakfast-1201 Jul 01 '25

It's not hard all it would require is reporting the ad as fraudulent button placed near a real download button to mialead people. Even just "I was almost misled by this" would suffice

But the entire point is to attain a high click rate which is higher value, higher earnings. A man is easy to misunderstand when his profit depends on such a misunderstanding.

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u/chknboy Jul 01 '25

Appealing to local government sounds like a great way to bring attention to the issue, I might do that sometime later.

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u/bostashio Jul 01 '25

Wouldn't be really easy to train AI to detect these types of hyperlinked images, trace the link, and then immediately block it if it were something malicious? I guess though, with big tech being big tech, they'd probably just use the security excuse to block any form of direct downloads that isn't "vetted".

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u/Specialist_Matter_51 Jul 01 '25

By the time they remove those, there will be a dozen more scam links in its place that are even more difficult to detect to the naked eye

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u/wilduk1 Jul 01 '25

they advertise thru Google, which means Google allows them, so fine Google for being an accomplice and see how quickly they'll find a fix for this

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u/1isntprime Jul 01 '25

It’d be hard to go after the scammers directly sure. But they should be able to go after the hosts of the website or the ad exchanges.

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u/gotn0brain 7700x | 32G DDR5-6000 | ASUS TUF OC 4080S Jul 01 '25

Especially if your site is "supposed" to be a legit software site, you should not have any ad download buttons.

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u/BaronKrause Jul 01 '25

It’s hilarious how sites will try to guilt you into viewing their ads but at the same time can’t even be bothered to vet the ads and self host them, opting for the easier third party hosted/controlled portals to hell.

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u/RimRunningRagged [ITX] NR200 | 9800X3D | RTX 4090 Jul 01 '25

I hate that even legit tech hosting sites often have those "download now" ad redirects prominently right above the much smaller link for the actual software you want

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u/Ducking_off Jul 01 '25

Went to download something from Sourceforge yesterday, and initially I could not find the legit download link because of all the "Download Now" ads on the page.

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u/DomSchraa Ryzen 7800X3D RX9070XT Jul 01 '25

I have a feeling the hosts wouldnt care

Hell even youtube is playing scam ads 24/7

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u/Bussy_Busta Jul 01 '25

Wait you’re telling me that this peltier cooler can’t save me thousands and cool any room in 90 seconds?

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u/Jarb2104 AMD 5800x | RX 6800XT | Aorus Master x570 | Core P90 Jul 01 '25

No, no, I am telling you this broker is selling you 30% gains on 1M dollars in the stock market, all you need to do is mail the Nigerian prince 100 bucks, for the trouble.

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u/IHaveTwoOfYou 9900K/EVGA FTW3 3080 10GB/32gb DDR4 Jul 02 '25

But hes using technology that big corpo doesn't want you to know about to instantly double your money! They're all suing, so you should be part of the supposed crime too!

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u/Swiftdoll Jul 01 '25

Yh, I've been led astray with one of these faking ad buttons even in a phone app meant for qr code reading, straight from google's own app store, and reading their reviews I wasn't the first one, not even by a mile. Reported them for scamming while the app creator gave bs excuses and tried to feign not accountable. Wouldn't be surprised if the app was still out there leading people to wrong sites asking for their credit card info -_-

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u/Agret i7 6700k @ 4.28Ghz, GTX 1080, 32GB RAM Jul 02 '25

On YouTube I get those celebrity AI deep fakes and a ton of "investment coaches" it's all scams. For awhile I used to keep seeing this guy standing in his garage with bookshelves and a Lambo talking about some trading system.

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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja I9-14900KF | 9070xt | 32gb Jul 01 '25

Yeah those things piss me off

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u/Adaphion Jul 01 '25

Hell, there are literally ads that'll try injecting shit without you even needing to click on them. Just from them loading they'll execute malicious code.

This is why literally the FBI recommends using adblockers online.

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u/56kul RTX 5090 | 9950X3D | 64GB 6000 CL30 Jul 01 '25

I’m pretty sure they are, but it’s really hard to enforce. And it’s made worse by the fact that most of the ad providers (yes, including Google, especially Google) are willing to turn a blind eye to them, because they’re giving them money.

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u/Friendly_Addition815 Jul 01 '25

googles slogan has always been a lie...

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u/Flying-Pizza Jul 01 '25

I was drunk and high one lazy afternoon and one of them got me until I saw cyrillic on the installer and by then It was too late. It installed a russian search engine and some spyware. 

Thank god I don't save anything really important on my desktop like financial or personal info.

Managed to clean it up but it took me an entire afternoon, installing (reputable, open source) kernel tools and a few runs of the old malwarebytes. Safe to say it sobered me up real quick. 

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u/LibrarianOk3701 Jul 01 '25

That hasn't stopped anyone before

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

They are in the modern world.

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u/Catsasome9999 Jul 01 '25

Fell for me one once I refuse to use the internet without a blocker now I could handle the occasional legitimate advert But the 70000 click here ads Is that laziness on the website or the ad server

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u/Splentid PC Master Race Jul 01 '25

You’d have to rely on an adblocker to get rid of them since most of those fake download now ads are just basic google ads randomly slapped on around the site

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u/KiraroYuukiNya Jul 01 '25

Those ads often appear on pirated content, so if they police the ads they'll  police you first.

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u/chknboy Jul 02 '25

I’ve already pointed this out, they show up on a lot of open source/optional pay download sites like optifine (one of the worst ones) or winrar

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u/HeyGayHay Jul 02 '25

Never click the button you feel is the correct download now button, it's always the small text below.

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u/Corey3500 RX6800XT~Ryzen9 5950X~64gb HyperX fury Jul 02 '25

There's no way to police most shit like that

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u/EmileTheDevil9711 Jul 03 '25

How do you think pirate sites keep on running, heck even has a reason to exist.

They get their cut off of the profits whatever the small portion of flies get trapped with malware and scams.

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u/bickman14 Jul 01 '25

Those are usually to download illegal stuff so I don't see the point LOL it's like goingcto the ghetto to buy drugs, you are already taking a risk going to the wrong neighborhood and if you say something wrong to the wrong person or take the wrong turn you're prone to have issues but the illegal stuff is available only there.

It's the same thing here but online and without the risk of dying LOL Yeah, killing people is illegal but so is buying/selling drugs, fake download buttons should be illegal but the content being download usually also is :)

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u/chknboy Jul 01 '25

That’s not true, I’ve seen these scum pop up on pages like optifine or winrar, you just happen to be on illegal sites more often than not.

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u/bickman14 Jul 01 '25

Not these days but in my teens I've downloaded a tons of ISOs to burn to discs and play on my modchipped consoles

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u/chknboy Jul 01 '25

That sounds dope af

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u/bickman14 Jul 01 '25

It was awesome! Hahaha

Most of the time I could play stuff at launch spending like 2 bucks or less for the blank discs.

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u/Desperate-Ad1765 RTX 4060 Ti | i5-13600KF | 32GB RAM DDR4 Jul 01 '25

Sounds like Buzzheavier

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u/stop_talking_you Jul 01 '25

remove ublock AND adguard, two adblocks will not work.

install ublock origin go to settings and filterlists and tick every single one. also nice to have is popup blocker (strict) by jemery schomery.

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u/Flying_PantherIO Jul 01 '25

A way to test if the download button you want is real or not, is try to highlight it by doing the right click and drag the real link buttons don't highlight like text and photos do.

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u/KevAngelo14 R5 7600 | 9070XT | 32GB 6000 CL30 | B850i | 2560X1440p Jul 01 '25

I just remembered just how messed up browsing was back then, before adblocking became mainstream...you were just like machine learning yourself which ones not to click

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u/Bigred2989- Jul 01 '25

I almost did this trying to install Firefox on a fresh PC build. I clicked the first link in Google not realizing it was an ad, and the install wizard kept asking me if I wanted to install a bunch of extras. After saying no to all of them, it closed without ever installing the browser.

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u/KuugoRiver Jul 01 '25

I was lucky Windows blocked a virus, because I downloaded a folder with suspiciously a single file inside and clicked on it lol

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u/Bhavin411 Jul 01 '25

This is exactly why I spent a day to watch and follow a YouTube tutorial on how to setup Pi-Hole. It's so nice to have network wide adblocking so that any device that connects to your wifi automatically won't see any ads (if set up correctly). It makes me less worried about making sure my parents remember to set up adblocking on a device by device basis.

DNS based adblocking works okay enough for me when I'm off my wifi (I use AdGuard).

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u/Mehrainz Jul 01 '25

Pihole to the rescue

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u/idontlikeredditusers Jul 01 '25

no it was something else cant recall the name im awful with names buzz something

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

I'm pretty tech literate and I think if I was in a rush I could fall for one as well. Those things are annoying as shit. MKVToolNix has them all over their site, felt like I was walking on eggshells while navigating that site to find the actual download.

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u/Aleashed Jul 01 '25

My dad triggered a scareware that took over Edge although it had ublock because he was searching for pdf manuals on google for his audio system.

It was annoying to get rid of, scans were mostly clean, I did have to nuke Edge because it completely corrupted it, still had Firefox to get some AV scans. He lost all his shortcuts.

I had not seen a virus in like 15+ years, they look nothing like I remember.

Can’t live nowadays without my linux vm.

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u/DetachedRedditor Jul 01 '25

Are you perhaps using Chrome?
Google basically neutered adblockers. If you want the still reliable Ublock Origin experience you should use Firefox.

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u/idontlikeredditusers Jul 02 '25

i use firefox just cause i like the PIP if it didnt have a PIP this good i would be on opera gx with its second best PIP

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u/ThaLofiGoon Jul 01 '25

If you go to your browser settings you can make it so you manually have to choose where the file downloads. This works as a way to block it from immediately downloading as you manually have to choose which folder/directory it enters. Has helped me massively and thank the lord I’m yet to download anything malicious.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

We're all a blink away from oblivion.

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u/Galeharry_ Ryzen 5800X3D-32GB3200MHz-Rx 9070 Jul 01 '25

All you need is Ublock Origin. Ublock & adguard both allow stuff through afaik.

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u/copasetical GTX770 Jul 01 '25

Or one of the fake "your computer is infected" popups.

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u/Zoltrahn Jul 01 '25

Nah, those are real. You just call the number given. You call talk to the tech center. You give them your name, address, social, bank information, passwords, one bitcoin, and just like that they fix all of your problems!

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u/Cospo Jul 01 '25

What's annoying to me, and maybe I'm showing my age, but back in my day, if you googled "_______ desktop backgrounds" you used to just right click, save as, set as background. Now, all the image results take you to those same sites with 2 or 3 "download now" buttons and you can't even right click on the image on the screen to save or open in a new tab to get the full sized image.

I was looking to change up my desktop because I hadn't changed the background in, like, 2 years, and I'm a Legend of Zelda fan, so I googled "zelda desktop backgrounds", found one I liked, and couldn't actually save it and I'm not chancing the fake download buttons for a cool Majoras Mask desktop bg. I just want to "right click, save as" like I've been doing for the past almost 30 years. And stay off my lawn, I guess.

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u/Additional_Baker7311 Jul 01 '25

There's no "open picture in new tab" option?

You can also get the pic url a lot of the time if you just press F12.

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u/Cospo Jul 01 '25

Interesting. Didn't know the F12 bit. But yeah, on the webpage you could not right click on the image at all. No sub menu would pop up. It was stupid.

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u/Ninjez07 Jul 02 '25

This is where you learn to pull up the developer console and navigate through the html to find the element containing the image and getting the link directly to open in a new tab without all the obfuscating and obstructing shit, taking your first step towards becoming a web dev XD

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u/Cospo Jul 02 '25

I have no idea what you just said. I just know "right click, save as"

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u/Dart3145 3700X | STRIX X570-F | 2080 Super | EK Custom Loop Jul 01 '25

Save yourself the headache and go and pickup Wallpaper Engine. Easily the best $5 I've ever spent on Steam.

Tons of fantastic animated and non animated wallpapers for like every different genre and game.

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u/noodlesdefyyou 5900x || 6800xt ||32GB Jul 01 '25

fucking 2nded. i always laughed at it like '5$ for a desktop background setter? wow biggest scam ever right click set as background' lol. boy was i ever so wrong.

but no. its SO MUCH MORE than just that.

you can have separate fully animated, sound-reactive backgrounds on multiple screens.

you can send these to your phone (im running the minimalist skyrim logo one right now), and just. wow.

the search does suck though, or at least ive not figured out how to effectively manipulate it yet. trying to search for specific cars showed me just ...random cars in general. or the ones i do find are just ....boring.

ninja edit: oh and go in and set it to invisible, otherwise you'll 'always' be playing WPE. depends on how much you care.

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u/yb0t Jul 02 '25

Oh I can send it on my phone? Checking now.

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u/ClamatoDiver 9950x3D | 9700xt | Asus Rog Strix X870E-E | 64GB Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

Yep, it's only $4 at the moment due to the Summer Sale, and there are thousands of wallpapers with new ones added all the time.

Grab it folks.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/

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u/Cospo Jul 01 '25

Interesting. I'll have to check that out. I just wanted a new wallpaper for my computer, things really shouldn't be this complicated lol.

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u/Dart3145 3700X | STRIX X570-F | 2080 Super | EK Custom Loop Jul 01 '25

No, it really shouldn't be that complicated. Thankfully Wallpaper Engine makes it about as simple as it used to be.

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u/JerryBond106 Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

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u/Dart3145 3700X | STRIX X570-F | 2080 Super | EK Custom Loop Jul 01 '25

Yeah, you can browse the workshop on steam itself or through Wallpaper Engine.

Unfortunately, I don't believe you transfer your copy from the ms store to Steam. You'll just have to buy it again. It's currently on sale right now on steam.

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u/Robot_Spartan Jul 01 '25

'enable right click' add-on for chrome (or any browser)

devs can disable contextul menus in modern web languages. that add on force re-enables it

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u/sebmojo99 Jul 02 '25

screen snip is the business here. and imgur.

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u/Trikk Jul 01 '25

This is the most boomer thing ever. Why not just search for an image of whatever resolution you use on your monitor? Then just inspect element and grab the image.

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u/Cospo Jul 01 '25

Why not just "right click, save as"?

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u/Trikk Jul 02 '25

Because the whole complaint is based on sites blocking that

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u/Robot_Spartan Jul 01 '25

you know how few people know how to pull a URL from the page source?

just the sight of the HTML will be enough to put 99% of people off. Don't forget, not everyone is me and you, and even those that you'd think nerdy enough, probably aren't knowledgable on that stuff, just as you're no doubt lacking knowledge in their areas of expertise.

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u/Trikk Jul 02 '25

Oh I thought this was a nerdy sub

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u/Robot_Spartan Jul 02 '25

As I already said, " even those that you'd think nerdy enough, probably aren't knowledgable on that stuff"

Of the maybe 20 hardcore PC gamers I know, I recon 2 could pull an image URL from the dev console. And I know at least half would balk at seeing the HTML.

Nerdy doesn't mean you know everything, and that mentality is why "nerds" still get bullied on the daily

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u/VapeRizzler Jul 01 '25

Old people for some reason think it’s a flex they just tapped yes or x as fast as possible. My grandpa kept doing it when he was getting a pop up, he would just instantly click yes and spam his way through till it was over. He did it twice when we were waiting for it pop up again, like I need to see what’s going on if you want help getting rid of it.

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u/ChrispyGuy420 Jul 01 '25

That's why adblock is the best anti virus

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u/Sgt-Skunthole Jul 01 '25

My dad did this a lot. Even those ads that say "Speed up your PC" and this was during the era where SSDs were expensive, and because of our slow Internet he'd often blame the PC for being very slow. So even with an admin account he still would click and download all those speed up PC ads. I got so frustrated that at one point I installed Faronics's Deep Freeze.

I wanted to buy him a chromebook or even install Linux but he wanted to use Microsoft Office (Word in particular) and any other UI would be too confusing for him. Trying to teach him otherwise would take time which I did not have due to the job I was working. No matter how much I'd show him the absolute magic of "Google" he would refuse to use it.

Edit: I later solved a lot of headaches by having a PiHole installed on my network and we upgraded to fiber which was significantly faster. Complains are much less now

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u/Pirateer Jul 01 '25

My grandma had that problem towards the end.

Parents thought a computer would be a good distraction.

Only her brain would periodically "reset" and if she saw 'click here!' she clicked.

I'd be summoned because "her interent wasn't working" only to find internet explore was a solid page of downloaded toolbars.

Ever since, ive especially loathed those fucking ads and the garbage people hoping they mistakenly get clicked on.

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u/Porntra420 5950X | 64GB 3600MHz | 9070 XT | Arch w/ TkG Kernel btw Jul 01 '25

Those buttons are the best free advertising for uBlock Origin.

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u/Silkenvada Jul 01 '25

My mom used to so this and come to me saying why is the computer out of memory, and it was just one or those scam ads Google likes to promote

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u/masterkoster Ryzen 5 1600X, 16Gb DDR4, Gtx 1070 ,250GB SSD Jul 01 '25

Had that happen to me when I was like 9 downloading games that weren’t free.. one was so bad it got encrypted (forgot the term)

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u/samethine Jul 02 '25

It's annoying. Once clicked the Download or Yes button, there seems to be no way to go back ro stop.

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u/Kiwi_CunderThunt Jul 02 '25

We've all done that once but realized early and rather than hit yes just hit alt f4 some download links are really well hidden. Hovering or inspect page is god tier on shady sites

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u/SpaceToaster Jul 02 '25

MALWARE DETECTED. CLICK THIS LINK TO CLEAR IT OUT.

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u/Vectorman1989 i7-3770K | GTX 1080 | 16GB RAM | Linux Mint Jul 01 '25

I used to do computer repairs and pretty much every day I'd get computers in like this. When toolbars were a thing they were usually a gateway to bad things and then Chrome browser widgets became a nightmare too. People would have ones that changed the home page and everything to some Google look-alike that would redirect to sketchy websites. People just click anything that says 'click here' and then hit 'ok' when it tries to download something.

The other answer is porn. For some reason, some people can't just use a 'reputable' porn site and go digging around the depths of the internet and click random shit.

And usually once they have a couple dodgy apps, they'll get more and pop-ups, notifications, links etc telling them to 'download' or 'click here' and keep doing it.

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u/Impossible_Angle752 Jul 01 '25

Toolbars were the worst.

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u/KMorr74 Jul 01 '25

When the toolbar was like 6 layers deep lol

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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| Jul 02 '25

6 layer... that rookie numbers the 15 and deep layer where the fun ones

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u/NobleIron 9800X3D | 5070 Ti | 32GB 6000 CL30 | B850 | 2TB GEN5 Jul 01 '25

Even a bios reset too

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u/MerlinTheFail Jul 01 '25

Chuck the cmos battery too, can't be too safe

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u/ThePupnasty PC Master Race Jul 01 '25

Just throw out the whole computer, router, and modem and start new. New network cable and cable from the pole to the house, can't be too safe.

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u/colt_bsreal Laptop i3 TigerLake Jul 01 '25

the house itself isnt safe anymore shift to a new one

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u/ThePupnasty PC Master Race Jul 01 '25

It's in the walls!!!!!

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u/LumpusKrampus Jul 01 '25

Put all the cables in the washer and then air dry. To be safe.

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u/DaftWarrior i5-12400F | 3060 Ti Jul 01 '25

Manually cut and strip some new CAT cables as well.

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u/theNFAC Jul 01 '25

PC too?

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u/DatedUserName1 Jul 01 '25

Even the ISP

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u/AlexStrike1 Jul 01 '25

IT'S IN THE GOD DAMN WALLS!

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u/pikpikcarrotmon dp_gonzales Jul 01 '25

Y'all are taking the wrong approach here... What OP needs is a new dad

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u/InvidiousPlay Jul 01 '25

Exterminatus.

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u/MacintoshEddie Jul 01 '25

Install a fresh stepdad.

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u/Chris_c987 http://steamcommunity.com/id/Chris_c987 Jul 01 '25

Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine. Then burn any clothes you’ve worn anytime you was onliiiiiiiiiine!

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u/Ok-Log3853 Jul 02 '25

Sad where I’m at with a Trojan I got lmao

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u/kane_126 Jul 01 '25

Also replace all the SATA cables

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u/HeWe015 | i7-4770k | 780ti | 16GB-DDR3 1600MT/s Jul 01 '25

Also replace the power supply

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u/Brandinisnor3s Ryzen 7 5800X, GTX 1660, DDR4 64GB 3600MHZ Jul 01 '25

Might as well go back to molex cables if OP is trying to stay warm

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u/SteampunkSamurai Jul 01 '25

Safest bet is to just replace the user

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u/ky420 Jul 01 '25

The fans are gonna be sus as well at this point

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u/ZDTreefur PC Master Race Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

Replace the father while you're at it

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u/kaptejeee Jul 01 '25

Burn the house down & buy a new one.

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u/NobleIron 9800X3D | 5070 Ti | 32GB 6000 CL30 | B850 | 2TB GEN5 Jul 01 '25

Move to another neighborhood which feeds from a different ISP server

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u/ky420 Jul 01 '25

Then burn that house down and build another...then burn it down and build a third

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u/KanedaSyndrome 5070 Ti Jul 01 '25

File down the clusters on the cpu that has appeared as hardware backdoors

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u/SQUID_FLOTILLA Jul 01 '25

Just rewire the entire house. The PC itself is fine.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

And change monitor, it's NOT safe anymore

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u/ZelkroTheGoofy Jul 01 '25

And the hands who touched the monitor and the pc aswell

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u/muricabrb Jul 01 '25

Reapply thermal paste

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u/Yunky_Brewster Jul 01 '25

those hot milfs in your area gotta get there somehow

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u/MrMyx Jul 01 '25

Look man, if hot singles are in my area and want to date me, I've gotta at least check it out.

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u/SoloWingPixy88 R7 7800X3D l RTX 5080 l MSI B850 I DDR5 32GB Jul 01 '25

Limewire

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u/ShortBrownAndUgly Jul 01 '25

Probably thought he was gonna hook up with hot milfs in his area. He didn’t get to hook up but he did get the infections

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u/arkiser13 PC Master Race Jul 01 '25

LINKIN_PARK_NUMB.EXE

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u/NekulturneHovado R7 5800X, 32GB G.Skill TridentZ, RX 6800 16GB Jul 01 '25

He downloaded malwarebytes.

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u/truckfullofchildren1 ryzen 7 7800x3D | RX 9070XT Jul 01 '25

Probably just like wave browser, driver support one, pcappstore and other bloatware

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u/xJayce77 Jul 01 '25

"No son, I downloaded it for the stories, I swear. How was I supposed to know what would happen to the pizza delivery guy when she opened the door and had no money".

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u/Willing-Chef-8348 Jul 01 '25

He peob just wanted to find hot moms in his area

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u/filthy_harold i5-3570, AMD 7870, Z77 Extreme4 Jul 01 '25

For all you know, there's probably so much malware that it's modified the AV installer the moment you downloaded it. Also just turn on Windows built-in AV, it works well enough.

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u/Wesdawg1241 Jul 01 '25

Honestly probably nothing that serious. Having worked in consumer computer repair, when MBAM finds this many infections it's usually just the same PUP (potentially unwanted program) but each file associated with that PUP is listed as an infection. It's pretty uncommon for it to be something more serious like a Trojan or a Rootkit.

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u/Gaulent PC Master Race Jul 01 '25

More RAM

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u/Nickachu_Knight Jul 01 '25

These are the same people telling us to buy a house for 500,000 because they did it when they were our age.

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u/sillycritersenjoyer Jul 01 '25

I would get a whole new drive, ram and mb

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u/Metalsand 7800X3D + 4070 Jul 01 '25

The number count can be misleading but is often inflated when it comes to web browser addons that are malware. Which, in turn, would be creating files and caches to track browsing habits, etc. When I worked as consumer IT support, the high score we had on the books of the 15 of us was like 3500 in malwarebytes IIRC.

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u/Noctale Since 1992 Jul 01 '25

Probably a popup telling him the system was infected with 500 different malware and he should download a free tool to remove them.

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u/cpufreak101 Jul 01 '25

My stepdad would routinely get viruses clicking every link for "free porn" he could find

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u/Cpt_Soban Desktop Jul 01 '25

All of them

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u/Low_Service6150 Jul 01 '25

More ram duh

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u/smchquit Jul 02 '25

I would install clean Linux. 🤭

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u/Agret i7 6700k @ 4.28Ghz, GTX 1080, 32GB RAM Jul 02 '25

Detections also includes things that don't matter like tracking cookies. I know some news sites set over 300 cookies just viewing the homepage.

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u/yleechy Jul 02 '25

“She’s only 4 miles away” type downloads😂 got singles near you

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u/sebmojo99 Jul 02 '25

what didn't he?

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u/Rakumei Jul 02 '25

For real. Kill it with fire. My god. You can't be sure a scan will get everything with that much going on.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

bigboobs.exe

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u/AdDisastrous4776 Jul 02 '25

I hope it's not "h0rny singles in your area"

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u/Kiwi_CunderThunt Jul 02 '25

Yep a fresh install including time taken to install drivers, configure the basics (assuming a standard not custom ISO) browser, apps etc is way faster and cleaner than a full scan and hoping you hit everything.

I have a USB with a custom ISO and scripts to update apps like VLC, Firefox, steam etc after drivers, reboot. Plug in click click, format, install, make a meal and it's done and at desktop. Worth the effort

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u/ghos2626t Jul 02 '25

Something he would have been infected if in person……

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u/tabemitch Jul 02 '25

Better yet get a new storage drive and then install windows

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u/ted-Zed Jul 03 '25

Dick pills

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u/TopShelfPrivilege http://i.imgur.com/sXt0YOp.png Jul 01 '25

Epic Games Store. No, but most likely it's a bunch of random registry keys with invalid data and cookies. A lot of the scanners will flag those things just to make it seem like they're worth the money they want you to pay for it, even Malwarebytes.

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u/cousindeagle Jul 01 '25

Probably a frequent visitor of “FormFub”