Back in 2000, when I was discovering the delights of the internet for the first time, I was downloading everything in sight. From “official” downloads to stuff that was downright suspicious, I was downloading and installing with reckless abandon. Then my now-wife ran a virus check and discovered I had infected her machine with 12 Trojan horse viruses. I was punished to no-internet for the rest of the day — and to sit in the corner of the room. Installed software has kind of fallen by the wayside in recent times, with the advance of cloud technology and smartphone apps….
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