5 ways to stay safe online

Staying safe online is an ongoing battle. There will always be bad actors who desire to take advantage of you online compromising your devices for their nefarious activities. One of the ways they do it is via links. Yes links, they send you a link and depending on the plan once you click on the link a cascade of events could be triggered. An example will be downloading malware on your devices to slowing down your devices, to outright stealing your information on your device. So to not become a victim here is what you should know when you get a suspicious links either via email, text or WhatsApp.
1) Head over to https://www.virustotal.com/
2) Paste the link that was sent in the URL field
Once you do that the site will tell you if that link is compromised or it is a safe link.
Doing that is one way to stay safe online. Stay tuned for the remaining four ways.
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