With a heavy sigh, Leo closed the tab. He realized that a "free" download often came with a price far higher than a subscription fee. He decided to stick with the web-based version for the night, choosing the slow, safe path over the tempting shortcut of a suspicious advertisement.
In the late hours of a Tuesday night, Leo sat hunched over his aging MacBook, the glow of the screen reflecting in his tired eyes. He was a freelance graphic designer on a deadline, and his old version of Word had just crashed for the third time that hour. Desperation was setting in. With a heavy sigh, Leo closed the tab
Just as he was about to click, a memory of a colleague’s horror story about ransomware flashed in his mind. He paused, looking closer at the URL. It was a string of random numbers and letters—not exactly Microsoft’s official domain. In the late hours of a Tuesday night,