Found this on another forum by someone posting a link in a thread. When asked about the link and if it's safe, he said you can check it out at virustotal.com if you have any suspicions. Is this site itself a good way to check if links are safe or legitimate?
It appears to be a legitimate website according to Norton 360 and Firefox. If either do not trust a website I'll get a warning screen. No warning screen from either.
recently i ordered tyres from BKids.net checked it on line said OK but NOT!! after about a month contacted chase Visa + got a full refund!! their price seemed to be too good + surely it was. not the first time + glad i use a chase visa!!!
I understand that but is the service they provide legitimate or accurate. Would you trust the results they give after entering a link to a website or page?
I understand that but is the service they provide legitimate or accurate. Would you trust the results they give after entering a link to a website or page?
For this service to be truly legitimate, someone somewhere somehow has to be the one who decides what constitutes what in the world a "legitimate" link even is. Then they'd have to do that for the entirety of the internet. I don't know how, logistically or conceptually, anyone could do that.
I suppose I could see this service running a quick malware scan, or running the URL against a database of known scam sites; but I am pretty sure that most browsers have that same protection, built-in, working in real-time.
EDIT: Their tag line is "Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches, automatically share them with the security community." I guess that's useful in some way; but in no way, shape or form would I a) take time to check a URL before clicking on it, nor b) consider this to be a reason to take my foot off the gas pedal when it comes to exercising common sense.
