The program appears in malicious links spread by search engine optimization poisoning on sites such as Google Image Search.

They inject malicious content into innocent web pages and add malicious links to online chats.

Social spammers often capitalize on breaking news stories to plant malicious links or dominate the comment sections of websites with disruptive or offensive content.

Social spam can be manifested in many ways, including bulk messages, profanity, insults, hate speech, malicious links, fraudulent reviews, fake friends, and personally identifiable information.

User-submitted comments can include malicious links that will inappropriately harm, mislead, or otherwise damage a user or computer.

When a user clicks on a potentially malicious link, a warning box will appear that gives more information about why the site might be dangerous.

Put another way, Internet realities are clashing with long-held IT sensibilities, and social-engineered attacks, absent-minded leaks, and malicious links abound.

A potential victim loads a compromised web page or opens a malicious link in a spammed email.

The compromised web page or malicious link in the spammed email sends the user to a Blackhole exploit kit server's landing page.