by KTKabo0m
Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:38 am
Someone on one of the programs I use to message friends has posted a particular link from a site that WOT says is suspicious and so does BitDefender. However, since I don't want to investigate it myself with a valid Steam account .. I wondered if anyone here can tell me the risk this site (and not just the proposed or assumed risk but verified risk).
The message posted on a friend's status in Skype was:
[quote]Click this little button plez:
<removed link - dotti> ]He had already shared this with many until I told him the risk in that. Now he has taken it down.
I had to fiddle with the BBC to make it not automatically link (even though I checked "Do not automatically parse URLs" I was still seeing it clickable in preview so I didn't want to take the chance).
Edited by dotti--if a link is potentially harmful then it certainly does not need to be posted anywhere else to be clicked.
The message posted on a friend's status in Skype was:
[quote]Click this little button plez:
<removed link - dotti> ]He had already shared this with many until I told him the risk in that. Now he has taken it down.
I had to fiddle with the BBC to make it not automatically link (even though I checked "Do not automatically parse URLs" I was still seeing it clickable in preview so I didn't want to take the chance).
Edited by dotti--if a link is potentially harmful then it certainly does not need to be posted anywhere else to be clicked.