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agumonkey
on March 4, 2014
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Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible
Windows is such an open door (NPI) its incredible. Stupidly trivial malware can rewrite desktop icon shortcuts to append some url so the browser will start on it. I spent hours trying to help a neighbor before stumbling on this 'hack'.
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