Is t.co a Virus or Is t.co a trojan

Many of you may be wondering where all these links to https://t.co/ and https://t.co/ are coming from when your trying to understand if a site can be trusted or needs to be blocked, if you know how to block things through your router.

I have just set up my new #scam-catcher blog and noted immediately that my new blog had been visited by https://t.co/ and was smelling rats everywhere.

After some research I can report that they safer than most, in that they are autogenerated by Twitter as part of URL shortening system, by shortening URL using their own algorithms it  should help reduce spam the the original Author by not broadcasting their URL for all to see, but instead broadcasting only their auto-generated URL which only Twitter can use and decode.

This strikes me as a great idea, as we are forever being forced to disclose URL details which are picked up by SPAM BOTs and bombarded with the latest scam.

Here is a nice graphic I found.

I hope you find this information useful and subscribe to this blog.

Malcolm aka #fixed1tSCAMcatcher

Urgent to all residents of the building - scam

There is a new Phishing Scam making the rounds possibly with Virus or Trojan links.

It purports to be a an updated Emergency Exit Map all of the residents in which ever building you are in, here is a picture of the message:

Under no circumstances should you click on the Emergency Exit Map link in the message, just delete the message and empty the trash can on you email system and computer to ensure its gone.

If you are concern it is a real Emergency Map Message then just go and ask the department senior secretary or administrator for one.

If You Click on Emergency Exit Map You Will Be Scammed and there is every chance you will have your data and or identity compromised.

#fixed1tSCAMcatcher