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Often when I do a search and then click on the link I am redirected to a fake or phishing website. How can I stop this? Thank you!

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Often when I do a search and then click on the link I am redirected to a fake or phishing website. How can I stop this? Thank you!

Often when I do a search and then click on the link I am redirected to a fake or phishing website. How can I stop this? Thank you!

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Usually you would get to a phishing site directly by mistyping, or from the search itself.

You can avoid a lot of phishing sites with the following:

Tools > Options > Security
Known attack sites can be blocked here, uses information reported to Firefox and to Google.
[x] Warn me when sites try to install add-ons
[x] Block reported attack sites
[x] Block reported web forgeries

Having a good hosts file on your system can protect your entire system cross-application and all browsers and all your Firefox profiles against a lot malware. The hosts file must coded for www.example.com, example.com, anything.example.com -- Adblock Plus is more generic and can do more with less coding. See links below.

More information: on extensions and keyword shortcuts

Just so you don't miss important information about Adblock Plus, be aware that it does nothing by itself -- it needs filters. Be sure to install the "EasyList (US)" filter subscription.

In your google search settings (preferences), you can filter adult content, but that is not phishing

Phishing protection comes from your browser using collected phishing data -- not from the Google search itself where you might see a warning.

more http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ensuring-your-information-is-safe.html


corrected to read Tools > Options > Security

Gewysig op deur David McRitchie

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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

See also:

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Forgot to ask you what do you have for keyword.URL in your about:config entries.


References in case you don't know about about:config