Open it on your work computer like I do, to avoid problems with my personal device
How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ?
Submitted 1 week ago by Docker@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 week ago
this one trick IT hates
Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 1 week ago
virustotal.com can help at least somewhat.
Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 1 week ago
- Norton Safe Web
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
You can check URLs and files at virustotal.com for free.
If you have Windows 10/11 Pro and your computer supports virtualization, you can enable the Windows Sandbox in Windows Features too. This creates a temporary virtual machine with the bare essentials and no antivirus built in for testing stuff like this to see what the worst case scenario is if you visited/accessed.
Docker@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I work on my small Samsung Android phone. Is there any means of creating a sandbox here ?
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
I’m not familiar on that platform, unfortunately, as I’m on iPhone.
But I think you should still be able to use virustotal’s website on mobile to check websites and also files.
There may be a sandbox app available for Android, but I’m not aware of any particular ones to recommend.
scytale@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Someone else already mentioned it, but virustotal can check if the url is malicious. It’s not 100% of course but more often than not it will catch a malicious url. It’s a quick and easy way to check on-the-fly.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Use a friends computer
joshchandra@midwest.social 1 week ago
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If it’s a website use a website preview online service.
coherent_domain@infosec.pub 1 week ago
In general only click on a link if you trust the domain. A URL usually looks like this: first.second.third…
And be very careful, only the second and the thrid word between dots count.
For example: suspicious.google.com is in general fine, since the second and third word is google.com . However, lemmy.legit-lemmy.world is unsafe, because the second and thrid word are legit-lemmy.world, but not lemmy.world.
There are ways to smuggle unsafe asset under legit URL, usually by uploading them on google drive, github etc. The good rule of thumb is to never run anything on your computer unless you are absolutely sure it comes from trusted source, like official website.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 week ago
Recently it has become a problem that optical twins of legit URLs exist, where some letters have been replaced by alike letters from different alphabets, see e.g. the list in this link.
tyler@programming.dev 1 week ago
I’m pretty sure ff shows punycode automatically. I’ve never had to touch it at least and I get punycode.
joshchandra@midwest.social 1 week ago
Dang. Is there an equivalent Firefox add-on that checks for this stuff?
Docker@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How can the configuration be done on the Android phone ?
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Definitely don’t click on links like this one: trustmethisisnotascam.com