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Originally Posted by PeterT
Also if you are at all concerned about security, most people would advise you to NEVER click on an URL in an eMail but rather to type it in yourself.
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NO! Seriously, don't do that! Say you receive an email from Paypal and then you type, have a typo and come out at paypla.com, which has the exact same layout as Paypal?
If you want to be sure for an email, check the headers; where does the email come from? Where has it been sent to ('undisclosed recipients;' for example is not good)?
Websites you visit frequently better have double-triple-checked bookmarks in your toolbar. Same goes for when you send an email to your bank or whatever - choose the person out of your hand-picked address book (not the one that fills itself automatically in Outlook or Gmail), don't retype the email from your documents.
See this article as well:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Cy...etails-352903/