jakeny
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If you're unsure of whether a website is safe to browse, what's the best/most accurate way to check to see if it has any malware? Thanks!!
This is a good website https://www.virustotal.com/, You can upload files or paste a URL in for a website..
OMFG....
(excuse the language) You have to be the most paranoid user I've ever seen. Did you turn your laptop back on? Did it blow up? Did smoke come out of the CD drive? Was there a ransom note posted to the screen? Did your virus scanner find anything? Did your malware scanner find anything?
It's my opinion that you'll be just fine dude....
Sorry for all the sarcasm. I'm not trying to make fun of you...just I think you need to relax a little bit. You're gonna put yourself into an early grave worrying so much.
BIG MISTAKE. Instead, it linked me to some unknown (to me) site and I had not checked it yet. I quickly cut the URL and pasted it into Virus Total and it came back with 1/55. One virus checker listed it as a malware site.
I panicked and was so upset and didn't know what to do and literally manually shut down my laptop (by pressing the power button).
So, I've been using Virus Total lately and it's been very helpful. Today, I was on Yahoo!'s front page and I clicked some link to a story that I thought would be linked to a separate Yahoo! page.
BIG MISTAKE. Instead, it linked me to some unknown (to me) site and I had not checked it yet. I quickly cut the URL and pasted it into Virus Total and it came back with 1/55. One virus checker listed it as a malware site.
I panicked and was so upset and didn't know what to do and literally manually shut down my laptop (by pressing the power button).
The problem is that I was on that page for probably 15 seconds or so prior to the shut down. I'm wondering if you guys think 15 seconds would be enough time for any malware to have infected my laptop? ...talk about annoying!
OMFG....
(excuse the language) You have to be the most paranoid user I've ever seen. Did you turn your laptop back on? Did it blow up? Did smoke come out of the CD drive? Was there a ransom note posted to the screen? Did your virus scanner find anything? Did your malware scanner find anything?
It's my opinion that you'll be just fine dude....
Sorry for all the sarcasm. I'm not trying to make fun of you...just I think you need to relax a little bit. You're gonna put yourself into an early grave worrying so much.
The problem is that I was on that page for probably 15 seconds or so prior to the shut down. I'm wondering if you guys think 15 seconds would be enough time for any malware to have infected my laptop? ...talk about annoying!