Topic: Clicked phising link - quickly help? (Read 167 times)

To avoid this phishing sites you must be very careful on the URL. The URL must have "https" on it, it is more secure. Also, having antivirus that blocks unwanted incoming and outcoming network.

Already deleted the whole thing so I wouldn't accidently press it again... no idea what the site was it had this infamous ''.'' on one of the letters, seen it a lot of with Etherdelta links where they put a dot under the h.
The whole thing was really bad english aswell, I know that its fairly easy for anyone without any technical skills with the help of a program to duplicate sites and then host them under a different name.

I personally think it was some low income country(English was horrible, 1st redflag) that just duplicated a website and tried to be clever to get me to follow the next link to a fake MEW as the article was about parity bug being found in every other ethereum wallet except for MEW and that I should go check really quick, making a transfer to check if it still works.

Atleast my reasoning is calming me down.. thank god for logic huh? It really relaxes me the more I think and try to rationalize what happened to understand what I was exposed to.

Anyway I did download and run some programs such as CCleaner and MalwareBytes (which was recommended as a really good one) MalwareBytes found 1 threat but nothing that I recognize that could have been from that phising site and its deleted now.

I am going to increase security though as this was fucking scary, especially since I had a really good day trading and I can't stand to think I'd lose that money....

I'm sorry for that.
Yea, agree. Most probably wanted your personal data only (pass or w/e)

Just idea .. there are also some web malware scanners (not sure how good they are). Just put the link in and they scan it for threats. (be careful this time not opening the link ... use righ button and copy rather than selecting it with mouse)

:|

not really no... but the website was targeted at me filling out sensitive info.. so I suppose a virus is a little far fetched if the website is designed specifically for me to voluntairly give up information?

Nothing bad on being paranoid (in some reasonable boundaries).  The problem is the virus is always first and tools to stop and cure it comes later. I just hope you was not unlucky enough to be among first infected.

I didn't calm you much, huh? 

Well Mcafee can't find anything, also scanned my other computer which runs AVG and it also can't find anything. I suppose its safe but I'm paranoid as hell right now. I don't even dare opening MEW or any other exchange website, I keep thinking that my anti-virus must have missed something.

I looked online into phising and supposedly they can also inject some malware/spyware into your browser upon visiting a website, but I suppose my anti-virus would pick it up?


edit; I downloaded and installed some extra programs recommended as being specialised in the problem I suspect i'm infected with, they couldn't find anything aswell so I guess I got lucky this time.

yeah I use McAfee

For safety reasons I'd rather not, I'm on my laptop and tried to copypaste the link and landed on it again.... so I really rather not...

Do you use any antivir, antimalware, web shield? To be safe you'd better scan you PC.
Based on my experience most sites use some sort of web miner ( using your CPU to mine coins for admin as long as you keep the site open).

Will you share the url? (do not post is as clickable link)  

Depends. Usually nothing happens if you don't download or share any private information such as passwords or private-keys in the phising website. But if you are too paranoid and hold a huge amount of crypto, you may want to run a virus scan on your PC or even reinstall the OS (I know people that would do that). Can you PM me the url so I can take a look?

I pasted a phising link into my browser, I didn't do anything else though and as soon as I realised it was a phising link I clicked it away.

Anything I need to do? Or am I still safe since I didn't download anything or shared sensitive info? Bit if a noob on these things some help would be appreciated.