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<blockquote data-quote="wat0114" data-source="post: 968329" data-attributes="member: 91306"><p>It looks like the user typically plays a vital role in getting hit with these:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/browser-hijacker[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If this is the case ( by no means am I expert on this), then some basic cyber security knowledge, common sense, and resisting the click happy urge should go a long way in avoiding them, so there doesn't have to be 100% reliance on the antivirus to come to the rescue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wat0114, post: 968329, member: 91306"] It looks like the user typically plays a vital role in getting hit with these: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/browser-hijacker[/URL] If this is the case ( by no means am I expert on this), then some basic cyber security knowledge, common sense, and resisting the click happy urge should go a long way in avoiding them, so there doesn't have to be 100% reliance on the antivirus to come to the rescue. [/QUOTE]
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