Is there a website devoted to checking suspicious emails or links? With all of the suspicious information and activity's online, is there a website or application that you can Copy & Paste,, and it will check for warnings, and/or the history or reliability of links, or URL's?
Anonymous
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Google’s Safe Browsing Diagnostic Tool;
To use the tool, type this string into the browser address bar: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
Then append the site URL to the end (after the = sign).
Google will then return sets of security information about that website page.
(1) The current listing status of a site and also information on how often a site or parts of it were listed in the past. (2) The last time Google analyzed the page, when it was last malicious, what kind of malware Google encountered and so fourth. (3) Did the site facilitated the distribution of malicious software in the past? (4) Also, has the site has hosted malicious software in the past?"
Source: Search Engine Land; http://searchengineland.com/googles-safe-browsing-diagnostic-tool-14064
Mail?
Kinda on your own there. Even mail from friends/known sources could be compromised if they themselves were nipped by malware.
Using "Sandboxie" is an improvement for security; just open whatever app/program you use for mail 'inside' Sandboxie...that supposedly contains any malicious code, but as always, PC users are at the mercy of intelligent & crafty 'bad guys'.
Anonymous
Hi there,
You could search google with the e-mail content (I've done this before) and you'll know if it's a scam. :) Thanks.