Monday, May 24, 2010

I clicked a link in an "ebay" email; however, it was detected as a possible phishing site. Please help!

When I got to this site, it looked exactly like an ebay site and asked me to log in. Since the security enabler popped up, I chose not to enter in any information. Am I in trouble or did I make myself any more vulnerable by just clicking the link?

I clicked a link in an "ebay" email; however, it was detected as a possible phishing site. Please help!
Phishing sites often embed malware in their pages. This way, if someone backs out at the last second and doesn't enter their info, the malware will sit on their PC and wait for them to do it at the real site and get login info that way. So yeah, that's why you don't click links from random emails.
Reply:Do NOT enter information in places like that---


ALWAYS go to www.ebay.com - type it in yourself to be safe!


and if you get an email and you don't know if its really ebay- go directly to ebay and look at your email in there...if its real- it will be in there too!!!
Reply:you shouldn't have gone to the link but you should be fine. Remember if you ever get an email from ebay, amazon, your bank, etc. you should always be able to do whatever the email says by curcumventing the link, going to the actual site, logging in, and taking control of the issue from there.


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