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Originally posted by riahc4
But does a "decent virus scanner" protect from that "check who blocked you" namechaning virus?
If that's one where you need to download a file by either filetransfer or URL, sure. If that's one where you need to voluntarily give a random site your username and password, maybe if the site is on some kind of blocklist. But sites change quickly, it is impossible for
any scanner to provide good protecting against phishing sites, Messenger Plus! is no exception to that.
Educating people to not be silly clowns and type in their password everywhere just because a stranger asks them nicely sounds like a better idea. Somehow it became acceptable to give other sites login details which don't belong to them... for example giving Facebook your Messenger password to import your contacts. You may be trusting Facebook, but any site where you login with your Messenger login details can do
anything they like with your account. These aren't even viruses, you just handed over your private information and the site owner can use your account for whatever he wishes. Just because your password is hidden in a password field doesn't mean the site doesn't exactly know your password when you type it in. People need to start realizing that. There is no automated software protection against being ignorant.
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