KIXS FM 108 » tech thursday http://kixs.com The Country Leader Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Tech Thursday: That Download could be Malicious! http://kixs.com/tech-thursday-that-download-could-be-malicious/ http://kixs.com/tech-thursday-that-download-could-be-malicious/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 15:30:12 +0000 wcampise http://kixs.com/?p=4262 The next time you are asked to download new software to view a movie or fix some type of problem, think twice. It could be malicious.

Studies have shown about one of every fourteen programs downloaded by Windows users turns out to be malicious. Better known as a Trojan horse.

Instead of hacking your browser, the bad guys try to hack the people using them. In what is called “Social Engineering” and it’s a big problem.

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