- Mar 16, 2019
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She tested one by one unlike Leo of TPSC who use a script to run too many within a few seconds. So that's not the issue here.I believe this question has been asked and answered somewhere in this forum but I'll ask it again as my memory betrays me, an individual would not be attacked by multiple malware as in the test presented by cruelsister I assume, that is probably done for expediency but if they were taken on one at a time would the security soft and the machine have a better chance at success?
You can ask, how one can get infected by these? To which Andy has already posted links above on how users come in contact with these malware.
For Magniber it's typosquatting and for another ransomware, it was through malicious ads on sites with pirated contents. That's how most malware for home users spreads anyway.
So avoid these, use a good adblocker like uBlock Origin or Adguard to stay out of most trouble.
In addition browser like MS Edge and DNS like NextDns has some sort of typosquatting protection.