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How does malware spread

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Answer: Malware can use known software vulnerabilities to infect your PC. A vulnerability is like a hole in your software that can give malware access to your PC. When you go to a website, it can try to use vulnerabilities in your web browser to infect your PC with malware. Other than this malware can spread by four ways Clicking on links to malicious websites in emails, messaging apps or social network posts. Visiting compromised websites, aka drive-by downloads, viruses can be hidden in HTML, thus downloading when the webpage loads in your browser. Connecting your device to infected external hard drives or network drives

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Answer: Malware is usually distributed through malicious websites, emails, and software. Malware can also be hidden in other files, such as image or document files, or even in seemingly innocuous files, such as.exe files

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