I just received an obvious junk mail and I foolishly clicked on their link of "unsubscribe"
I reached their page and it looks strange then closed it immediately.
Any risk of getting infected my computer??
Some said there are a kinds of virus that possibly clear all your files on your computer
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Technically yes, but infection from this requires them to attack your browser with an unfixed vulnerability that does not require further user interaction. As long as your software is up-to-date that's quite unlikely.
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This is precisely the time when a VM is great. Not sure about a dodgy link? Load it in a sandboxed VM. Once done, just restore from a previous, clean snapshot and you're good. I actually do a lot of web browsing this way - when run fullscreen, you only lose a small section of screen estate when using VirtualBox and the performance is the same - unless you're short of RAM.
I only include this as a side note because I can't really add to what Mr.Koala has already told you. -
You can turn off all the hud elements in a VirtualBox window.
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As it happens, I just worked this out, barely 5 minutes before I read your post! I'm loving the minimalist look it gives with the VM client's taskbar set to auto-hide.
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Sometimes those unsubscribe links are a trap to confirm that the e-mail address is still being used which will usually mean more spam. Best thing to do is never click any links in any of these spam e-mails.
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And if you use a mail service with a spam filter, always click the "this is spam" button. It helps.
any risk of getting infected or attacked?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by kenny1999, Aug 16, 2016.