Originally Posted By: David Snyder



Herb Hartley made an 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 NEVER click on anything outside of songs on this forum, but now I want to know what safeguards there are on this forum and I want to hear it from PG Music.

But they could lead anywhere, or be linked to anything.

Are there protections against clicking on any link here on the forum?

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?

What is our protection here? This makes me concerned.

But really good point Herb.

I never thought about this before until now--as Herb pointed this out.

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

I would like to hear from PG Music.


I find it sad that this kind of thought exists after all every new person to the forum is a stranger. As are all the veteran users strangers to the newbies. In the words of Wayne and Shuster “who is that beside you”. “Why it’s you”. “Ah but can I be trusted”. I would suggest never go to a new site unless you check it out first but encourage discussion, comments and help on the Forums.

My thoughts

Tony

Last edited by Teunis; 01/06/19 02:32 PM.
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