Here is a story that illustrates the reality of these downloads and how to stay safe. The Search for a "Quick Fix"
Imagine this: You arrive at your office on Monday morning. Your work PC is sluggish, pop-up ads appear on the desktop, your browser homepage has changed, and files are being renamed with strange extensions (ransomware). Your corporate antivirus shows Why? Because standard AVs are signature-based and slow to adapt. Malwarebytes uses heuristic analysis and behavior-based detection. Here is a story that illustrates the reality