Herb Hartley made a smart and excellent catch on a newbie submitting posts with a suspicious link that looks like phishing attempt, or ransom ware trap.

Which got me to thinking.

We click on a lot of links around here with blind faith.

People I don't know, who have no name, and no identity, and no face post "interesting threads" here all the time.

I am extremely careful when I click on anything outside of songs on this forum, but now I am interested to know what safeguards there are on this forum and I would like to hear it from PG Music, if possible, just out of plain old curiosity. It may be impossible, but my curiosity has been raised.

Some of the "interesting links" could lead anywhere, or be linked to anything.

Are there protections against clicking on any link here on the forum? I would guess NOT--but I don't know much about web forum security other than I think it is smart to keep running Norton.

Even a soundcloud link can be spoofed, right? Email accounts are spoofed all the time.

Theoretically, any one of them could lead to a ransom site, malware site or phishing site right?

The suspicious looking link info Herb found came out as a red flag for me and something to be more super cautious about in a day and age when Internet treachery continues to escalate.

Could the entire forum be an open ransom ware landmine, or are there protections??

I would like to hear from PG Music, if possible, to see how similar concerns might be addressed from the other side. I don't know what I don't know.

David Snyder
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