Bitdefender Phishing Alert: linksredirect.com
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Hello. I need your help in investigating what's going on lately. Just like a week ago, I started receiving notification from Bitdefender saying it has blocked Vivaldi from accessing
linksredirect.combecause of phishing. I receive this alert like 3-5 times in a day maybe, not sure. But I don't have any history of opening that link. Not that I know of. Can you please let me know how Vivaldi is accessing this phishing page?
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Thanks for response. My pc has no malware/virus for sure. and I'm not visiting that page like I mentioned. It is really an extension, I believe. That's why I am asking how to check pls.
I cannot just turn off an extension and observe because I can't exactly and easily reproduce the attempt. In other words it's not predictable. How do you diagnose this issue? like is there a tool out there that checks if an extension is fishy? -
@bebotette Can you post a list of your extension names? Perhaps others here may recognize a problematic one among them... or at least give an "OK" on ones they know by experience/reputation to be clean.
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Thanks for the reply. Here are my extensions:
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Beanote - Note Taking on Web Pages
Checker Plus for Gmail
ClearURLs
Cookie AutoDelete
Enhancer for YouTube
Export links of all extensions
FasterChrome
Full Page Screen Capture
Google Dictionary (by Google)
Google Translate
IDM Integration Module
Imageye - Image downloader
LastPass: Free Password Manager
Mailpanion: Email Tracking & Tracker Blocking
Messenger Unread
Pin to Website
PixelBlock
Scrollbar Customizer
Super Simple Auto Refresh
The Coronavirus App
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Toggl Button: Productivity & Time Tracker
Toolbox for Google Play Store
uBlock Origin
Volume Master
WhatFontDisabled
Clear Cache
CSS Scan
Downloader for Instagram + Direct Message
Hello, Goodbye
Honey
Responsive Viewer
Snapfont
svg-grabber - get all the svg's from a site
Unlimited Email Tracker
VisBug
Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker -
@bebotette said in Bitdefender Phishing Alert: linksredirect.com:
My pc has no malware/virus for sure.
How are you so certain?
@bebotette said in Bitdefender Phishing Alert: linksredirect.com:
Here are my extensions:
Good lord that's a huge list of extensions. Do you really need that many? You use all of the enabled extensions daily?
That list is too large for me to do this work for you, but you need to do a web search on each one individually. Don't just review the first page of results, you're going to shift past a lot of general info pages like the Chrome store page, home page for the extension, likely the firefox addons page, a handful of "reviews" & promotional articles, etc. You're looking for well known tech sites that are giving warnings, or forum threads discussing the extension and any issues, etc. I personally would go through at least the first 2 pages on DuckDuckGo, if not 3 or all 4, depends what the results look like.
You really should do that for every extension you've got. For the issue at hand though, you can first try a more specific & relevant search such as: Extension Name linksredirect.com. That might get you an answer fairly quickly, but I would still advise the general search for any malicious extensions you might have installed.
I'll help you out and rule out uBlock Origin, Tineye, LastPass and the Google extensions (not the CheckerPlus for Gmail, that's not Google I don't think).
Those 5 extensions are the least likely culprits, assuming that it is an extension in the first place. The next time it occurs, make note of the most recent page loaded, all tabs you have open, and anything else that is running (panels can be actively working even if they are not the one currently displayed).
Good luck.
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@BoneTone Thanks for your generous reply and your willingness to help. Appreciate it.
Yes, I use a lot of extensions especially for my work as a web designer and handling lots of emails like that. I use 90% of them on a daily basis.
I'll take your advice heartily and will do my homework. I'll do research one by one. But the last time I tried researching about linksredirect.com was somewhat a deadend. I'll try using duckduckgo.
And one other thing, I don't have 'The Coronavirus App' in my extensions so I wonder how it appeared in my list when I tried to export the list of extensions. Any quick idea why and how to remove it?Again, thanks a lot.
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Unnecessary Extensions
- Google or Anything Translate
- Anything Dictionary
Both of these extensions are more powerful when used as a web panel and a search engine instead. So that's what I do. I've created several custom search engines for looking up definitions or translations. These provide the same right-click access as the extensions. The panels provide a nice persistent tool on the side of your work.
- Full Page Screen Capture
Vivaldi has this feature built into the browser as native functionality. Just uninstall that thing.
- Mailpanion
I'm not 100% certain what this does, but if you've got uBlock Origin configured properly, and especially if you were to combine it with uMatrix from the same developer, then you have no need for any other blocker extensions. I'm unaware of any extension that can block ads or trackers that these cannot. I mean, if you're running in default Deny, absolutely nothing gets through that you don't approve.
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@bebotette said in Bitdefender Phishing Alert: linksredirect.com:
And one other thing, I don't have 'The Coronavirus App' in my extensions
Make sure you scroll all the way down the Chrome Apps section, it's probably listed there.
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