Should I be worried about infection or anything, because Avast doesn’t seem to be finding anything so I figured I’d ask here.
I personally dislike these shortened (obfuscated) URLs as unless you have a previewer of the expanded URL, you are taking a risk more so in a social networking site when you have no idea of who placed it.
Why would you think avast should be finding anything, just because a URL is shortened doesn’t mean it is infected ?
You have a point, I clicked it and it definitely seemed suspicious from the preview page, so I didn’t follow the link but I just wanted to know if something maybe could of infected me, I’m not the greatest computer user, so I don’t know if I should be worried or not.
Personally I would be wary of links in social networking sites in the same way you wouldn’t click links in emails that you receive from people that you don’t know; as there are many trying to trick you into clicking on an unsolicited link.
Though for the most part there may be nothing malicious, it only takes one. That said the web shield and network shield are generally very accurate in preventing you getting hit by hacked/malicious sites.
Okay, but because I had the TinyURL preview enabled and got routed to that instead of the actual source of the malicious link, am I okay?
The actual preview may not go any further than the actual primary page and even so its content to should also be scanned by both of those shields. I can’t give that kind of guarantee that you are OK.
The preview page is just part of tinyURL it never actually goes to the site in question, it stays within the tinyurl domain.
I’m not entirely sure how the TinyURL Viewer works. It either has to go to the site to be able to retrieve the data to display or retrieve it from TinyURL which retrieves it to form the preview image.
In either case it is either scanned by avast if retrieved from the original site or limited risk if an image is created on the TinyURL site that is pulled into the view.
This is what it leads to:
hxxp://preview.tinyurl.com/2tx
This is for google, but I totally understand if you don’t want to follow it and I changed it to hxxp like I’m supposed to.
As in reference to your post…U could have got exposed to something maliciou…but looks like u are safe for now…
see: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=72300
On the same ASN,we have a another bady see: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=69593
apart from that,u look ok for now…but u nust watch out for such suspicious tinyURL’s
http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/4ea01df1b023d8d2709e7fb162e63022-1340211155
That link was too google, it was just to show the preview page.