there are many viruses in the web world and my doubt is does viruses affect web crawling services
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Jump to PostThe majority of malware is installed by social engineering, not browser exploits. A script crawling the web will not be vunerable to this kind of attack (unless you write a crawler that speficially finds these kinds of sites, and tests them in sandbox's for statistical purposes).
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