Malicious sites infect computers through browser vulnerabilities using pieces of code called exploits. There are also fake twin sites, the owners of which rely on entering logins and passwords into them by mistake, for example, from social networks. Finally, sites may simply contain malicious files.
Instructions
Step 1
Turn on protection against malicious resources in your browser. For example, in Opera, do the following: open the settings window ("Settings" - "General settings"), go to the "Advanced" tab in this window, select the "Security" item in the vertical menu of this tab, and then check the "Enable protection against fraud ". After that, each domain name will be checked using a constantly updated database. If it is included in the list of suspicious, a page with a warning that it is dangerous to visit the resource will be automatically loaded instead of the site.
Step 2
Carefully look at the address bar of your browser after clicking on a link left by someone. If instead of, for example, vkontakte you find vikontkate, and instead of odnoklassniki - ond0klassniki, do not enter either your username or password into such a site. Also, scammers can change some of the letters in the domain name from Latin to Cyrillic letters of the same style, or vice versa, and this will also lead to getting to another site. This type of fraud can be detected by including a font in the address bar, where the Latin and Russian letters are very different from each other in appearance. There are especially many such fonts in Linux.
Step 3
Before visiting a site that seems suspicious to you, try checking it for exploits by clicking on the first link at the end of the article. Only after making sure that the resource is not malicious, visit it using a browser.
Step 4
If it turns out that the site contains exploits, but you still need to visit it, for example, to read important information, go to the second of the links located at the end of the article. The Skweezer service will load. Visit the site you need through it - it will pass the HTML code through the filter, removing scripts and leaving only text and images. All the same, do not enter your username and password in the input fields on the site you are visiting in this way.
Step 5
Before downloading a file from the Internet, check it for viruses remotely. Use the VirusTotal website for this (see the third link at the end of the article). The file located at the link you entered will be scanned by various antiviruses one by one. Download it only if it is not infected. Please be aware that VirusTotal service is not a replacement for your local antivirus.
