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Malware

Any program built to work against you — stealing what you type, locking your files, or using your machine for someone else. It nearly always arrives as something you opened.

Malware: Any program built to work against you — stealing what you type, locking your files, or using your machine for someone else. It nearly always arrives as something you opened. Think of it as Poison hidden in the pantry. Malware STAYING SAFE Any program built to work against you — stealing what you type, locking your files, orusing your machine for someone else. It nearly always arrives as something you opened. WHAT IT REALLY ISLOOKS HARMLESSALREADY INSIDE Poison hidden in the pantry. FOR EXAMPLE You open an attachment from what looked like a delivery company. Nothing seems tohappen. Something is now running that you did not choose.
The drawing that proves the sentence above. It is the same card that is in the book.

Think of it as

poison hidden in the pantry.

For example

You open an attachment from what looked like a delivery company. Nothing seems to happen. Something is now running that you did not choose.

This is one card out of 275.

The hundred words you meet most are free — the whole set, animated, in one file that works with no internet. Volume 1 has all 275 in fifteen chapters, with Staying Safe the largest chapter on purpose.