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Drive-by downloads: Can you get malware just from visiting a website?
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<blockquote data-quote="plat" data-source="post: 937014" data-attributes="member: 74969"><p>Meh, malware infections are still mostly crimes of opportunity.</p><p></p><p>The article teaches one a few things but can be a little uncomfortable, maybe prodding one to re-examine one's security setup. Fundamentally, it's a marketing tool. albeit an informative one. That's neither good nor bad, it just is.</p><p></p><p>I place the highest priority on updating all the resident software, as Andy Ful and SecurityNightmares said. It's that important. It's how I got a flash player exploit a few years ago--by carelessly opening a browser before updates were applied (yeah, flash player was embedded back then). Totally my fault and lesson learned. But, certainly the risk was lowered when certain plugins like flash and Java were deprecated in Windows 10 latter builds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plat, post: 937014, member: 74969"] Meh, malware infections are still mostly crimes of opportunity. The article teaches one a few things but can be a little uncomfortable, maybe prodding one to re-examine one's security setup. Fundamentally, it's a marketing tool. albeit an informative one. That's neither good nor bad, it just is. I place the highest priority on updating all the resident software, as Andy Ful and SecurityNightmares said. It's that important. It's how I got a flash player exploit a few years ago--by carelessly opening a browser before updates were applied (yeah, flash player was embedded back then). Totally my fault and lesson learned. But, certainly the risk was lowered when certain plugins like flash and Java were deprecated in Windows 10 latter builds. [/QUOTE]
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