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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Beware of Increasingly Sophisticated Malware Infection Attempts
by
blockchainlion.com
on 24/01/2018, 17:35:41 UTC
I'm adding this to the list of possible scams:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=951827.0

will simply a http link and not a https link indicate a possible malware or scam link, if you have any info on this , please give some explanation on this ?

Thanks!

Well.. http and not https simply indicates there is no encryption in the http packets coming on/off that link's server.

If the link points to a page that has HTTP where you have to insert user and passwords or credit cards -> IT IS A SCAM! because that information will be out in cleartext and somebody might be able to snatch it.

if the link points to a HTTP page that has only informations and data to display to you (a static website), then https is not strictly necessary and it does not indicate a scam necessarily.

if the link points to a page that has HTTPS there is encryption, but still don't be 100% sure and always investigate further!!!