Nowadays, "malicious" links appear more and more and are shared through social networks at a "breakneck" speed. Just clicking on a "malicious" link can bring potential dangers to you.
One of the most popular and most used social networks today is Facebook. This is also one of the "paths" for Hackers to share malicious links. Just click on the "fancy" links with an impressive title and a huge number of views, then all of the user's information will almost fall into the hands of Hackers. User information is used by Hackers for a number of different purposes. One of the most recognizable purposes is for a user's Facebook account to be "hacked".
If you accidentally click on a malicious link and get "hacked" and lose your Facebook account, you can refer to how to get your Facebook account back here.
My advice is that before clicking on a link, you need to make sure that the link is safe and does not contain malware. However, the problem is how to know if the link is safe or not? That is also the topic that Network Administrator will introduce to you in the article below.
1. How to check the target attribute of a link?
Before checking whether the link is safe or not, you first need to learn how to copy the target attribute of a link. This is very important, it will inform you of the URL of the website you want to check.
All you need is to right click on the link you want to check. A menu will now appear on the screen
Select: Copy link address (if using Google Chrome browser), or Copy link location (Firefox browser) or Copy shortcut (if using Internet Explorer browser).
The target attribute of the link will be copied on your computer memory, you can paste it anywhere.
More simply, you just need to point your mouse at the link, and look at the bottom of your browser (on Windows) and see which website is loading, that is where you will actually be taken when you click on the link.
2. Check if the link is safe or not?
Use one of the services and tools below to check if the link is safe or not:
A good way to see if there's a virus or malware in a link is to rely on a tool from online security giant Norton.
Norton Safe Web is a free online reputation service that involves using Norton's servers to analyze websites to see how they will affect a person and their computer. Norton created this new service in an effort to combat the many online threats that exist on the Internet today, including malware, spyware, phishing, viruses, etc. Norton Safe Web is designed to help protect people from websites that try to obtain credit card information, banking information and/or passwords or send malicious files that could damage a computer.
To scan a URL for malware, simply paste the URL into the test field and click the search button. Norton Safe Web will display community ratings and reviews of the website. If you want to contribute your opinion, you can create an account and join the community of link checkers.
As well as a browser-based link checker. Norton Safe Web offers two additional tools:
- Norton Safe Search Extension is an enhancement to the Chrome address bar that adds quick safe search functionality to the browser
- Norton Home Page Extension brings safe search to all search engine results.
Both options will check the safety of links before you click them - ideal for safe browsing.
Norton Safe Web works based on community feedback to monitor the Internet. This means that Internet users will evaluate different websites on how they perform, if anything suspicious happens while on these websites, etc. Anyone who visits the website Norton Safe Web can access this information by clicking on the “Community Buzz” tab on the website; There, users will see various websites and whether they are labeled “OK” by Norton and highly rated by the community.
Website owners can submit their pages to Norton Safe Web for Norton to check and help the website owner improve the quality of the site, helping visitors feel secure when on that website. Website owners will receive the Norton security seal when their website is confirmed as a legitimate business entity, uses best-in-class SSL certificates, and scans for malware daily. Once certified, these sites will appear in Norton Identity Safe, Norton Safe Search, and Norton Security user search results pages.
ScanURL is an independent site that values sending your affiliate queries via a secure HTTPS connection. Even though the spam link checker is supported by ads, the results are still very good. You can also provide an explanation of where you viewed the URL to help other users avoid it.
ScanURL references Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic, PhishTank, and Web of Trust, then provides information about the Whois record of the queried website. The returned results will immediately indicate whether you should visit the website or not and include ScanURL recommendations. Stay away from the site if the results list it as dangerous.
Some websites (including some options in this list) and tools are examined by ScanURL when it collates results. Once the ScanURL results page has loaded, a permanent URL will be applied. You can copy and paste this content to share with friends, family or relevant people for their reference. Very convenient!
Instead of focusing on malware, PhishTank lets you know if a link is safe or if it's taking you to a phishing site.
When you enter a URL that you suspect phishing activity is taking place, PhishTank will check it. If the link is already in the database, you will get the results immediately. If not, the website will provide a tracking number. Checking phishing links is not as simple as automatically checking some malware links...
PhishTank is operated by OpenDNS. Anyone can contribute to the site and verify links that have been submitted by other users.
Google also offers a useful link checking service. Transparency Report provides a standard field where you can enter the URL you are interested in. A few seconds later, the results - aggregated by Google's web crawlers - will tell you whether the site is trustworthy or not.
Along with malware, Google Transparency Report will warn you about phishing risks.
Providing a multi-functional browser-based scanning engine, VirusTotal analyzes "suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware." Scan results are then shared with the cybersecurity community. Just go to the website, click on the URL, then paste the link and search.
VirusTotal can also check link safety in its Android and Windows apps. For developers, VirusTotal provides public and private APIs. Although limited to non-commercial projects, they can be used to create your own file and link scraping tools on your website.
The easy-to-use PSafe Dfndr Lab tool helps you check the safety of a link with just one click.
Simply copy the URL you're querying from an email, website, instant message, etc. into the search engine. Click Check URL to see the results.
If the site is found in the database, you'll know whether you can trust it or not. If not, or if data about the site is not found, you are advised to exercise caution: "If you don't 100% trust the URL or the site, you should not click on it."
Unlike the other link checkers listed here, PSafe Dfndr Lab relies on Machine Learning technology to detect "potentially unsafe URLs".
Additionally, links are cross-referenced with suspected URLs from other resources, while internal analysis is performed if other tests are inconclusive.
Finally, there's URLVoid, a tool that helps you "detect potentially malicious websites." As with other tools, simply enter the suspect URL and wait for the site to check. You will find information about the URL and its history.
A list of the services that URLVoid uses to produce results is also shown, with famous names including Avira, BitDefender, and PhishTank.
If you need to scan IP addresses, URLVoid offers a companion service, IPVoid. For developers, URLVoice also offers APIvoid so you can create your own link safety checker.
Good luck!
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