RogerS
Established Member
I was chatting to my security guru this evening about a couple of emails I'd received saying that the order for the Sony oojamaflip for $799.99 was being billed to my credit card. To check the progress of my order click on the link below.
To my stupidity I did click on the link and got a blank page. I asked my guru what were they trying to achieve by this. Just confirmation that there was a human at the end and therefore a live link?
No....WORST SCENARIO is this. As he explained to me (and I should have known better) ..by clicking on the link you are basically saying to your computer 'trust this source' and so if they have embedded any nasty software in the link/page/whatever then BY CLICKING on the link you have effectively BYPASSED EVERY ANTI-NASTY piece of software that you've installed on your computer.
The moral is clear...DO NOT....I repeat....DO NOT click on these links
To my stupidity I did click on the link and got a blank page. I asked my guru what were they trying to achieve by this. Just confirmation that there was a human at the end and therefore a live link?
No....WORST SCENARIO is this. As he explained to me (and I should have known better) ..by clicking on the link you are basically saying to your computer 'trust this source' and so if they have embedded any nasty software in the link/page/whatever then BY CLICKING on the link you have effectively BYPASSED EVERY ANTI-NASTY piece of software that you've installed on your computer.
The moral is clear...DO NOT....I repeat....DO NOT click on these links