Recognize suspicious sites

[JM Safe]

It is important to know which sites are malicious (malware sites) or phishing. Yes we can upload an address to an online malware scanner but it can happen the malicious site is FUD so it seems it is clean. The most important thing to defend us from phishing is to verify the presence of forms to fill in information. If you don't know the site DO NOT insert any information. Sometimes phishing sites use names SIMILAR to known websites such as Facebook, and the malicious site could be named "Faceboook", if a user doesn't pay attention to the fake name he could insert data to a fake site and get phished!
About malware sites obviously download malware (usually also dangerous ransomware threats): in this case is fundamental to surf with a sandboxed browser (I use Chrome with Sandboxie), so the malware if it is downloaded it remains in the sandboxed area and then we can delete it!).

If you have other suggestions please write them! Thank you!

 

[RoboMan]

Nice suggestions!

• Do not add unknown extensions to the browsers
• Do not fill the browsers with themes and extensions (reduce the attack surface)
• Always navigate through HTTPS
• Don't trust flash sites! (although some still use, better safe than sorry!)
• Check certificates

 

[JM Safe]

Nice suggestions!

• Do not add unknown extensions to the browsers
• Do not fill the browsers with themes and extensions (reduce the attack surface)
• Always navigate through HTTPS
• Don't trust flash sites! (although some still use, better safe than sorry!)
• Check certificates

Thank you friend for improving this thread. These are simple tips but they can be very important and sometimes we forget them...

 

[RoboMan]

Thank you friend for improving this thread. These are simple tips but they can be very important and sometimes we forget them...

We always have more choices to protect ourselves from malware...

Spoiler: More security

 

[ChemicalB]

Thanks for the tips

My advice might seem obvious, but the human factor is considered the weakest link of the security process, so it is always extremely important to use caution and prudence when you are surfing the web and reading email. For example, never automatically click on links: not only in the email but also in social media, even if they appear to be from a known and trusted source.

 

[JM Safe]

Thanks for the tips

My advice might seem obvious, but the human factor is considered the weakest link of the security process, so it is always extremely important to use caution and prudence when you are surfing the web and reading email. For example, never automatically click on links: not only in the email but also in social media, even if they appear to be from a known and trusted source.

I think all tips, even if they seem "stupid" or "useless", they are NEVER useless but, on the contrary, very important!

 

[ChemicalB]

I think all tips, even if they seem "stupid" or "useless", they are NEVER useless but, on the contrary, very important!

Thank you sir!

 

[tsunami]

already mentioned but install some sort of a link/file scanner (ie virustotal) to check for suspicious sites/links/attachments/files etc (again can be FUD but it help lessens the percentage of risk). for shortened links use something like unfurlr to investigate where it goes to and scan that as well.

 

[plat]

Great suggestions, even if they seem common-sense to many experienced people. Reducing the themes in Firefox may be a tall order because if you like candy and there's a big store there, well....? Besides themes and extensions, you can review your plug-ins, which I found are sometimes useless but default-on. Flash isn't installed by default anymore, is it? I'd set it to never activate/ask to activate. I just disabled this "Widevine" plug-in, (what the heck is it? FF uses my GPU, thanks) and it was the culprit behind the constant 15% CPU use running Firefox/Sandboxie with only like one tab open. Credit post#4 :emoji_ok_hand:

 

[JM Safe]

Great suggestions, even if they seem common-sense to many experienced people. Reducing the themes in Firefox may be a tall order because if you like candy and there's a big store there, well....? Besides themes, you can review your plug-ins, which I found are sometimes useless but default-on. Flash isn't installed by default anymore, is it? I'd set it to never activate/ask to activate. I just disabled this "Widevine" plug-in, (what the heck is it? FF uses my GPU, thanks) and it was the culprit behind the constant 15% CPU use running Firefox/Sandboxie with only like one tab open. Credit post#4 :emoji_ok_hand:

I think Sandboxie is a must in a config. WD + Chrome with SBIE = good combo!