Unsafe Website?
Mar 28, 2024 09:03:10 #
A friend posted about an accident on Facebook, and there was a news video about it. When I clicked on Play, I got an entire screen of red with this message. I didn't not continue to the site. Looking further, I see that lots of other people have looked at the post, but I don't know if the clicked on the video. I figure better safe than sorry.
Mar 28, 2024 09:40:35 #
Those "accident reports" on FB are all bogus. Most of the links are flagged by Norton as probably nefarious.
Some people "join" groups and allow "posting on one's behalf" so they may not have been hacked.
Also, if the spammers have access to people's friends lists, they just "tag" people in the list.
Some people have their friends list as public. I don't.
But if I'm on someone's friends list that is public, I can get tagged. I remove my tag.
Some people "join" groups and allow "posting on one's behalf" so they may not have been hacked.
Also, if the spammers have access to people's friends lists, they just "tag" people in the list.
Some people have their friends list as public. I don't.
But if I'm on someone's friends list that is public, I can get tagged. I remove my tag.
Mar 28, 2024 10:03:34 #
Longshadow wrote:
Those "accident reports" on FB are all bogus. Most of the links are flagged by Norton as probably nefarious.
Some people "join" groups and allow "posting on one's behalf" so they may not have been hacked.
Also, if the spammers have access to people's friends lists, they just "tag" people in the list.
Some people have their friends list as public. I don't.
But if I'm on someone's friends list that is public, I can get tagged. I remove my tag.
Some people "join" groups and allow "posting on one's behalf" so they may not have been hacked.
Also, if the spammers have access to people's friends lists, they just "tag" people in the list.
Some people have their friends list as public. I don't.
But if I'm on someone's friends list that is public, I can get tagged. I remove my tag.
I have no idea where the accident supposedly occurred, but it was probably near where my friend lives. I'm not that interested to look and further into it.
Mar 28, 2024 10:31:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I have no idea where the accident supposedly occurred, but it was probably near where my friend lives. I'm not that interested to look and further into it.
Doesn't matter, they're not "real", they were copied from someplace.
The "accident " may have happened months ago, or longer.
They just grabbed (used) the image).
Mar 29, 2024 18:32:34 #
jerryc41 wrote:
A friend posted about an accident on Facebook, and there was a news video about it. When I clicked on Play, I got an entire screen of red with this message. I didn't not continue to the site. Looking further, I see that lots of other people have looked at the post, but I don't know if the clicked on the video. I figure better safe than sorry.
Whenever I get a screen like this, I always just stop immediately, and do a system restart...it's the safest course of action. If you click on either "Go Back" or "Continue to site," there is always the possibility that the bad actor may have programmed both of those buttons to go to the same evil website, which may have a virus or other nefarious things associated!
Mar 30, 2024 07:55:10 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
Whenever I get a screen like this, I always just stop immediately, and do a system restart...it's the safest course of action. If you click on either "Go Back" or "Continue to site," there is always the possibility that the bad actor may have programmed both of those buttons to go to the same evil website, which may have a virus or other nefarious things associated!
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