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Dubious downloads: How to check if a website and its files are malicious

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Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:45:08 +0000

Users often search the web for downloads when companies no longer support software, and what they find is dubious. How can they tell if the files are safe? We tell how to spot the difference.

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Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:42:39 +0000

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations.

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Far Cry 5 download offers: embrace the power of “no”

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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:18:42 +0000

It seems opportunists are jumping on popular video game Far Cry 5’s bandwagon, with a flood of promises for free game downloads. We take a look at a return to form for survey scams, and the odd download site while we’re at it.

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