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Have you seen a drive by download in the wild?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 815174" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>It is rare but possible. The greater chance would be via opening a spam attachment or intentionally run a crack. Furthermore, you do not need to execute the unknown downloaded file if it can exploit the application which is used for opening (like .docx document can exploit MS Word application).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 815174, member: 32260"] It is rare but possible. The greater chance would be via opening a spam attachment or intentionally run a crack. Furthermore, you do not need to execute the unknown downloaded file if it can exploit the application which is used for opening (like .docx document can exploit MS Word application). [/QUOTE]
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