- How to Properly Warn Others of Phishing Links
While it is great that users are warning others of phishing links, including the phishing link itself in the warning can actually lead to accidentally spreading the infection! It is important to be careful. Try to make sure when commenting/warning about a phishing link, to avoid using the url itself. This includes links you think may not be clickable (such as removing the www, or http://), as some browsers / extensions can make them clickable anyway.
Furthermore, it is not possible to programically determine if a user is warning of a phishing link, or actively trying to phish, if both cases use the phishing link itself. To this end, please, when warning others, try to use something un-clickable like badwebsite(dot)com.
well i was doing just that..
edit: so is because i placed .tk? instead of (dot).tk ? :S
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Yes, avoid a real link.
Edited the comment and added (dot) instead of .
Can you please now remove the flags from my comment? Thank you.
Thank you for removing the flags
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i guess we have to let that comment be?.. thank you for removing the flags and the time taken to replywith that icon shield @guard look like an antivirus and has my name on it lol.