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<blockquote data-quote="Zorro" data-source="post: 961201" data-attributes="member: 80312">The link itself is not dangerous. Until you click on it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> However, even if you click on such a link, then in this case you may be lucky - your antivirus will respond to the download of a malicious file, or if you get to a phishing site, you will notice that the site fake (spelling errors, incorrect design, wrong site address, unencrypted connection, broken interactive elements, and much more). &nbsp;&nbsp; Surprisingly, even if your antivirus does not know the malware, you may still be lucky, and there was such a case when a user clicked on a link in an email, after which his default browser, Google Chrome, was launched. But the malicious file was not downloaded, since the attack was aimed only at users of the Mozilla Firefox browser, in which the attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> And users of Google Chrome and browsers on Chromium were safe and could click the link at least 100 times <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> They were simply presented with a blank website page, while Mozilla Firefox users were running a script that exploited a zero-day vulnerability, which downloaded and launched the Trojan.&nbsp;&nbsp; But why would you risk so much? It is better not to click on links in letters from unknown senders.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zorro, post: 961201, member: 80312"] The link itself is not dangerous. Until you click on it :) However, even if you click on such a link, then in this case you may be lucky - your antivirus will respond to the download of a malicious file, or if you get to a phishing site, you will notice that the site fake (spelling errors, incorrect design, wrong site address, unencrypted connection, broken interactive elements, and much more). Surprisingly, even if your antivirus does not know the malware, you may still be lucky, and there was such a case when a user clicked on a link in an email, after which his default browser, Google Chrome, was launched. But the malicious file was not downloaded, since the attack was aimed only at users of the Mozilla Firefox browser, in which the attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability :) And users of Google Chrome and browsers on Chromium were safe and could click the link at least 100 times :) They were simply presented with a blank website page, while Mozilla Firefox users were running a script that exploited a zero-day vulnerability, which downloaded and launched the Trojan. But why would you risk so much? It is better not to click on links in letters from unknown senders. [/QUOTE]

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