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> link or attachment that when clicked or downloaded, takes you to a spoofed website or installs malicious software on your device.

Can someone show me a modern OS that would install software by clicking a link?

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Does IOS count? In that case people have been compromised without clicking anything and just getting an invisible text message is enough. Browsers have exploits with sandbox escapes. Any link to a file that is automatically downloaded and opened in an application (office doc or PDF for example) can exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying application and allow for anything including remote code execution.

Early on in COVID, Zoom was doing very sketchy shit so they could "one click" install from a web browser on MacOS

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