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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?


I'm not sure what you mean when you talk about spoofing here. With regards to emails, spoofing typically refers to using fraudulent headers in the email. For example, it is very common and easy to spoof the "FROM" header in an email message, and that's why spammers can send you an email that appears to come from your friend or whatever.

It seems like you're just talking about the url that a link is pointing to. Maybe this link for example.

A link is just a link - If you're unsure about it, don't click on it, just hover your mouse over it and look at what url it points to, usually the lower left corner of your browser window. Or you can right-click on the link and select "copy link address" (or similar) and paste into notepad. The vast majority of the time it is dead simple to tell if the link is valid or if it's just someone trying to get you to go to their site. You can do the same thing with your email messages. The only way it can really be spoofed is if the link is made to APPEAR it's a valid site because of it's similarity to a well known url. For example, www.pgmusic.biz or www.pgmmusic.com. (the spammer would have registered the similar domains and created a site)

There are tons of spammers that try to post messages on forums, and in their message they include a link to some site. Typically they want to increase traffic to the site so they can make money from ads. Our forum doesn't allow any new user to post a link without being moderated, and there are lots of other criteria that needs to pass for a post to get through unmoderated.

The recent spammer was quite smart it seems, in that they seemed to be trying to troubleshoot an audio recording problem. Although we did miss a few obvious things about that user, and let him through when we shouldn't have (Still his links didn't seem "malicious" in the sense of phishing /viruses.)

Last edited by Andrew - PG Music; 01/07/19 05:03 PM.
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