When it comes to spreading malware on the web, virus writers are nothing if not creative. We've seen malware infiltrate everything from Facebook to Twitter to email to IM. Now it seems you can add another site to that list: Slideshare , the community for sharing your slideshow presentations on the web. Over the weekend, security firm ESET discovered that this popular social media resource was ...
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