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Thread #121507   Message #2653896
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
11-Jun-09 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Most Dangerous Search Terms 'Music Lyric
Subject: RE: Tech: Most Dangerous Search Terms 'Music Lyric
It says,

If you like to search for "music lyrics" or "free" things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And "free music downloads" puts 20 percent of Web surfers in harm's way of malicious software, known as "malware."

This leaves it vague whether copying lyrics is dangerous or whether lyrics are risky because they might lure one into downloading music files.

So, can merely copying lyrics (using Ctrl+C) cause malware to be loaded onto a computer?
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Years ago a computer technician told me that sound files are powerful, and that computers weren't originally conceived as machines that deal with sound. I think that's still true to a certain extent. I avoid messing with sounds on my computer.