Be Careful

[[HGM]Marlboro]

Some of the links posted on our forums are NOT safe, use caution clicking any link posted on our forum. If the link is posted by the staff it is 99.9% safe, but there are ways that ours could get hacked, so allways check the actual url of the link...example below



www.keylogger555gg555.com/igoturinfo <- now on one like that you can tell that it is bad... however, as you will see below, there are some crafty ways that these people will try to trick you.



One way that they try to trick you is by posting a link like the next one

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9392/meowhh2.jpg

^^ that is the trick link, ofcourse, its not bad because its from me so go ahead and see how it sends you somewhere other than imageshack.



\./this is what the link should look like and how it should behave.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9392/meowhh2.jpg



the forums try to help you avoid tricky links by putting an underline when the link is unaltered, and removing it when there has been a change to the BBCode of the link.



At the bottom of your browser there is a status bar, on the left, you will be able to see the actual direction of the link you have your pointer on, try to make a habit of checking it to makesure the links match. If you do not have a "Status Bar" go to View>Status Bar and makesure there is a check next to it.



This image was sent by a user, as an extra bit of help.

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/424/haxta1.jpg





Good Luck, Safe Surfing.



=HGM=Marlboro

[[HGM]Retribution]

Also please remember that we don't send PMs on the forums with links. If someone sends you a PM with a link or download and they claim to be from the staff, then THEY ARE TRYING TO INFECT YOUR PC WITH A VIRUS . Anytime we have new downloads they are posted on the front page or in the Announcement section.
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