What Is a Malicious Link? How Do You Protect Against Malicious Link Attacks?
A “malicious link” is an attack method that is especially well suited to social networking sites. It’s relatively easy to pull off, and its success rate is quite high. For example, the recent Facebook scam “How to see who viewed your profile!!” is a malicious link attack. A malicious link can be explained in one simple sentence: it’s a URL that contains a Trojan, a virus, or something that can take control of your computer. When you click on such a link, your computer has probably already been infected. ...