Why You Still Receive Phishing Emails And Malware: Mangling The Strings

Basically Web browsers are dumber than most pieces of software, and they are easily tricked. They are also fairly robust in handling incorrect code, where they will allow incorrect and badly formed HTML, and try and understand what was meant by it. So, when it comes to security, the malware writers have many tricks up their sleeve, and one of them is to encode strings…

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