It’s *never* a virus when people say it might be a virus – funny diagram from XKCD

Those of us who work in IT security know this all too well…

Source: XKCD

Never a truer word spoken drawn…

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Via XKCD.


Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and is the co-host of the popular "The AI Fix" and "Smashing Security" podcasts. Follow him on Bluesky and Mastodon, or drop him an email.

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