I click on link by accident

[henry28]

Yeah i know im dumb. I werent concentrating and clicked on a link but i quickly went off it before anything loaded in. Whats the chance of me having a virus and im doing a antivirus scan. How can i make sure i am safe?


thank you
Henry.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Can you confirm the link was very suspicious?

Either way, download the free version of MalwareBytes and run a scan. I've been using it for nearly a decade and it catches everything.

 

[H_Frank]

Well the biggest issue with clicking on links is the embedded javascript on the site, sometimes it will try and pull cached data from your browser such as passwords and usernames. You say you quickly went off it so you probably didnt give the website much of a chance to load. You did a scan as well so any tracking cookies should have been found. I would say your safe.

 

[henry28]

Well the biggest issue with clicking on links is the embedded javascript on the site, sometimes it will try and pull cached data from your browser such as passwords and usernames. You say you quickly went off it so you probably didnt give the website much of a chance to load. You did a scan as well so any tracking cookies should have been found. I would say your safe.

thank you for the reply

 

[henry28]

Can you confirm the link was very suspicious?

Either way, download the free version of MalwareBytes and run a scan. I've been using it for nearly a decade and it catches everything.

thank you for the reply, the website was not legit but i did not know if there was any virus

 

[alto767]

Hi,

The chance of having a virus is minimal. But, just to be sure, you can run Malwarebytes or similar software.