Even the most legitimate websites can have malicious software injected without the website owner's knowledge, leaving unsuspecting surfers prey to unwanted executables downloaded along with their intended file.
While people can reasonably expect game, video, and file-sharing sites to piggyback unwanted software to their computers, they do not anticipate silently downloading malicious software while visiting Google. Yet, malicious code has been injected into Google's website - and has transferred to users' computers - without their knowledge on at least two occasions this year.
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