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I always get mackeeper popups when I'm on porn sites.

Yes like everybody else. A friend of mine, asked me twice, if this MacKeeper will keep his mac safe. I told him it's a simple spyware and he has to avoid it like the plague.

It's kinda widespread software among mac users, because you can find banners literally in every website with disputable content like porn, torrents, subtitles, you-name-it.

I wonder if anything like that, but targeted at linux, will ever come up.

It would have already if there was the market share.

Hm hardly. The average linux user is something like 100 times more skilled, computer-wise, than your average windows/mac user. That's why IMHO it's highly unlikely that a Linux Desktop based malware will ever reach big numbers. Those linux people are mostly geeks, they can tell easily if something is going wrong...

I disagree.. If linux had a larger market share you'd see users that weren't '100x more skilled' and advertising a cleanup program would be viable.

Permission structure of *nix is the same, and fools can be fools anywhere. A 30% market share for linux doesn't mean 30% of computer users gain 100x the skill overnight.

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