She clicked anyway.

Then she remembered something her tech-savvy cousin told her: "Free PDF Drive sites are almost never legal or safe. They steal from authors and risk your device. But there are legal ways to borrow ebooks for free."

A page loaded. It looked official: a cover image of the book, a green "Download" button. But then came the pop-ups. "Your McAfee subscription has expired!" (She didn't have McAfee.) "Click Allow to verify you're not a robot." Another tab opened with a lottery scam. The download button led to a .exe file, not a PDF.

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