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Poisoned websites are websites that contain viruses and malware. They are posted by unscrupulous businesses and hackers to infect your computer

Here’s how they work:

Say we are need to install a Brother printer on our computer. We go to Bing.com and type in the printer software we are looking for the search box. The search results appear and we immediately click on the first webpage listed to install the software

Here’s how we can tell:

If we take a moment we can see that many of these pages are potentially poisoned – including the first website we were about to click on. Notice how the websites I am highlighting do not not have ‘Brother.com’ listed in green. Brother.com is the official Brother website for Brother printers. Some websites like this one try to make themselves appear legitimate adding the brother printer model to the address!
Clicking on or downloading any software from these websites will infect our computer with viruses or malware!
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