Check Out The Links For Safety!

Check out the links! I'm not talking about a satellite link, not a sausage link, not even golf links. I'm talking about checking out web browser links to determine if they are safe or not. We receive links to all kinds of web sites in our email, Instant messages, and on our Facebook walls. Many of the links that we receive are actually phishing scams to either upload malicious software (malware) to your computer, or attempts to get access to your personal information.

Although we are wary of web links sent to us by strangers, we are inclined to trust web links and e-mail messages sent to us by friends and family. Creators of malware take advantage of us all, by appearing to come from the people we know. Malware sites draw traffic in an attempt to upload harmful software to your computer by using email and web links that take advantage of gaps in the browser or computer security. They try to entice the unsuspecting user to allow access to their computer by sometimes looking like a system message or security message from your own computer. Clicking the link, is the same as confirming permission for the evil intended web site to run programs on your computer.

So how do you check out a link before you click on it? The moment that you click the link, it may be too late to stop malware from attacking your computer. So, try using one of these sites to check out the links for safety.

Before you click it, copy and paste or type it into one of these sites to check if it's authentic.

1.  Norton Safe Web - http://safeweb.norton.com/
2.  McAfee SiteAdvisor - http://www.siteadvisor.com/
3.  PhishTank - http://www.phishtank.com/
4.  Online Link Scan - http://onlinelinkscan.com/
5  Dr. Web Online Check - http://online.us.drweb.com/?url=1

Get Updates By RSS

Related Articles

• Facebook Tip; Keep Your Friends Close And The "Others" Far Away (plainanswers4u.blogspot.com)
• 25 Million New Malware Strains in 2009 vs.15 Million Over Last 20 Years (pindebit.blogspot.com)
• Watch Out: Cyber Threats to Expect in 2010 (abcnews.go.com)