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Posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 04:15:05 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:59:25 2014. I thought that maleware, was a purposely intrusive program whose function is to screw up or slow down your PC, either just to be schmucky, like a virus, or it infects / slows down your PCr in order to istall intrusive, hacking programs of its own that your PC will infect other PC's with.That's pretty much what malware is, but websites can exploit glitches in your operating system or browser or any related software to install malware on your PC without you even knowing it. And they can exploit innocent websites by purchasing ad space on those sites to run their malicious code— when you visit a website, the ads come off a remote server, so they're basically like mini-websites of their own. The owner of the site you visit has no knowledge or control over what ads are displayed, so a Russian hacker can infect your PC through an ad on the New York Times website. |
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