How can opening a link to a website be inherently dangerous? I thought web browsers were run in a secure “sandbox”.
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I got a virus on my computer that got in via cookies through a particular website. Was trying to download a game (not entirely legally) and I got redirected to a Russian website. Didn’t think much of it at the time but noticed it started affecting my computer in many ways. Changing regions, slowing it down to like 5% performance and changing language of my browser to Russian as some of the more noticeable features.
Unfortunately this virus had infected just about everything from changing the settings in chrome to default to the website (to reload those cookies and re-infect the system), creating scripts in the shortcut to load the page, it created and modified registry files even going so far as getting into the boot folder of windows so when I factory reset my OS and opened up explorer to get started it immediately took me to that website.
Legitimately took me about a month to eventually scrub the entire system because if I forgot even one thing it re-infected everything and I’d have to start over.
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