Bob.  So let say you were googling things such as how to clean your computer or download files you need.  Or it could be something as wanting to find a recipe for cooking.  You go on google and look at links for cooking recipes etc.  Then when you click on a link that seems to get you to a recipe on google, then it gets you to a bad link.


How you do protect yourself in these situations?  You say by not clicking dumb things.  Well with my windows laptop, I am extremely careful with it throughout the years.  Only once or twice did I click on a link like that.  Last time it was through a website that is legit so I wasn't that concerned because windows defender didn't find anything.



The people that say don't click random links.  Of course i understand that.  Again im very careful with this normally until this time.  It wasn't even a link, it was an answer to a question on google where i thought it would just open up an answer,,, the link opened up.  Then i did virus scan on windows scan and it found lot of threats.  Then how in the world do you protect yourself when googling things then?  I mean are you suppose to inspect every single site you want to visit?  So imagine you looking for cooking recipes and found a bunch of sites... you have to make sure its a cooking recipe site?  So would kasperky or bitdefender alert you when you click on it that its a dangerous site and then you can go back?  This is getting beyond ridiculous because how can anyone web browse at all if things are like this.  Again im extremely careful when web browsing and downloading things.  This site just opened up when I thought all it does was give an answer to a question.