Last week, a friend downloaded a free game from a website. And, then, she noticed that her browser started behaving weirdly, including serving up some advertising she'd never seen before.
Yup, turns out she had an infestation of malware, software that can infest your computer and take over your browser, or worse!
How does malware like this get on your computer?
This article, on a Microsoft blog, explains about "ad injection" and how malware gets on your machine. It also describes how to prevent this.
It was worth a look!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/06/20/ad-injection-and-you-how-adware-gets-on-your-computer.aspx
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