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It was 14 MB. Light. Clean. Signed by Microsoft. He ran it. So he opened a browser and typed, with
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“Never going third-party again.”
No error.
The first three results were ads for driver updaters that looked like they came from 2003. Pop-ups offered to “scan his registry” (no), “fix his PC for free” (absolutely not), and one even claimed he had fourteen viruses (he had zero, but the message still made his heart race).