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9/05/2014

How the short links can threaten the security of your computer and how to protect from them.

First, what are the short-links : Short-Link as you know, play a very important role in the Internet, especially in social networks. If you have a long link and you want to convert into Short Link the solution is: Short-Link
How to shorten links:
It is very easy, there are many sites that offer this service as a site: bit.ly, goo.gl and others.



What are the risks of short-Link:

Suppose that you have a long link from this form www.verryloooooooonglink.url through the process of shortening links became like this www.short.url, so the link which the user sees is a short URL, in this case the original link also can be an image, video, or site. .. can be a malicious site or «server trojan» Once you click on that link short can carry the virus and this virus work automatically on your computer, which threatens its security.


How to avoid the risk of the short links:

 
The process is simply to know the original link, so I will give you two ways of how to do that:


The first way: Use a site shows you the original link, and from these sites: Unshorten.it
 

 The second way is to use the add-ons in Google Chrome and Firefox (see the photo).
 
Also notes in the picture «unshorten this link ...» After pressure it will take you to a page to find the original link:
 to downlowd the add-ons : google chrome / firefox