Add a warning window when opening links that are not official
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Red2Blaze Resident
Phishing links have seemed very common for a while now, and I feel they're really becoming a problem.
So on that, I wanted to ask if it would be possible to add to the viewer and, hopefully, other viewers to follow suit to give a warning when someone is trying to enter a website that is not an official one (Like Secondlife.com or Linden Lab and others that may be relevant to SL users like Primfeed and the like)
Over time, they could maybe also make a list of bad links so as they reported or maybe even set a trusted group of users that may be on groups and the like to be able to report links to add to be banned so if someone posts them after that it be blocked from being sent, even if they see it did, so SL could possibly be more secure all around.
It can also work that if someone sends a big amount of them around to maybe time them out or something so hopefully there account can be recovered with less damage and spread done
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Maestro Linden
Merged in a post:
Flag Spoofed LL Domain URL's in Chat/Groups/Notecards/Profiles
Beatrice Voxel
This is a relatively simple anti-phishing measure, similar to putting up the Linden logo next to verified Linden URL's, but more overt. IF someone uses certain words in a faked URL, such as "marketplace", "secondlife", "Lindenlabs" or other keywords that are commonly used by LL to provide info and services to SL residents, the URL itself is bolded and rendered in red with (POSSIBLE PHISH ATTEMPT) next to it. This would happen to both links posted in the open, and linked chat using the [URL_text] method.
Bleuhazenfurfle Resident
Heh… This reminds me … quite some years back now I got a little grumpy at LL for allowing someone to "hack my account"… Wasn't until about a week or two later, that I remembered my very first contact with marketplace had been through a group-linked item, that had required me to log in before I could view it — the URL looked reasonable, considering I was as-yet utterly unfamiliar with marketplace, though I do recall thinking "this seems kinda odd", right before RL yanked me away and I promptly forgot about it. (To be fair, the official login page
was
kinda odd, too, at the time.)SL Feedback
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SL Feedback
Hello, and thank you for your feature request regarding adding a warning window for non-official links to help combat phishing. This is indeed a significant concern for our community. We wanted to let you know that this idea has been brought up in the past and is currently tracked. While we don't have an estimate on when it might be implemented, please keep an eye on future updates. Your input is invaluable in making Second Life a safer and more enjoyable place for everyone. Thank you for your continued support and for sharing your ideas to help improve Second Life!