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PREVENT DRIVE-BY HACKING

to your computer and wider network comes from so-called hack tools. These are part of a wider range of tools known as “riskware’, which are tools that aren’t in themselves malicious but are capable of being used for nefarious ends by hackers. This is a gray area usually ignored by security software because the targets are perfectly legitimate programs that perform useful functionality—for example, Nirsoft’s ProduKey is designed to help you recover Windows and Office product keys from your computer, but because it can also be deployed to pull product keys

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