Be Careful When Typing URLs Unless You Want Malware

You’d be surprised just how many different threats exist across the Internet. Malware and viruses lurk in everything from advertisements to email attachments, from app downloads to YouTube videos even. Flash in particular is really vulnerable to problems like that. But one of the worst threats? Typosquatters. If you’re the kind of person who never directly clicks on links, then you’ve probably typed your share of URLs into your browser bar. Unfortunately, malicious people are starting to take advantage of this and filling these mistyped domain names with malware. Nearly half of all domain names use the .com extension, but there’s another domain name that’s...

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