Email list I accessed everyday

[jeffpan]

This is the email list I almost accessed everyday:
https://smartdocs.be/netmail/
Do you find any interesting stuff in it?

[Bamb0]

Thanx Jeff

[truemagic]

Nice list Jeff.

I will share mine as well. However they're also quite common (don't you think?)

https://sites.tempshr.com/#/b/6a28e44362445

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by truemagic

Nice list Jeff.

I will share mine as well. However they're also quite common (don't you think?)

https://sites.tempshr.com/#/b/6a28e44362445

That's a nice sharing too. it seems you prefer geek style.

[dryoldlime]

Originally Posted by jeffpan

That's a nice sharing too. it seems you prefer geek style.

I visited that site (ATTEMPTED)
Norton
Threat Secured
We prevented your connection to sites.tempshr.com because it is a dangerous webpage. Threat category: URL:Blacklist

See details(downarrow)
---I am not going to type all that stuff in the details----

[JeremyNicoll]

Originally Posted by dryoldlime

I visited that site (ATTEMPTED)
Norton
Threat Secured
We prevented your connection to sites.tempshr.com because it is a dangerous webpage. Threat category: URL:Blacklist

There's a reputable site: https://www.virustotal.com which will take an uploaded file or a specified URL and run it through (currently) 92 different anti-virus / anti-malware programs to tell you what they all think of it. I just did that for site

sites.tempshr.com/

See results at: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/8...d88f?nocache=1

87 systems think it's ok; the other 5 class it as "phishing" ... which likely just means that (as a link-sharing site) it obscures where a URL is pointing - so the naive might not realise that they've been directed to a phishing site ... if they never look at URLs.


You might want to google: risks link-sharing sites

Originally Posted by dryoldlime

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Doesn't Norton let you c&p information?

[truemagic]

Originally Posted by dryoldlime

I visited that site (ATTEMPTED)
Norton
Threat Secured
We prevented your connection to sites.tempshr.com because it is a dangerous webpage. Threat category: URL:Blacklist

See details(downarrow)
---I am not going to type all that stuff in the details----

Well, it's safe. Source: Trust me bro

I use it as a bookmark and access my favourite email providers daily.

In any case, most if not all of the email providers listed there are already mentioned/featured here so nothing fancy, I mean you don't have to visit if it's seen as a risk.

[truemagic]

Originally Posted by jeffpan

That's a nice sharing too. it seems you prefer geek style.

Indeed, I'm a pretty technical guy, so my approach to email is naturally a bit geeky. Nevertheless, I still enjoy using email services with a pleasant web UI, while having the flexibility of IMAP/SMTP access whenever I need it.

[Avion]

Originally Posted by truemagic

Well, it's safe. Source: Trust me bro

I use it as a bookmark and access my favourite email providers daily.

What a palaver, I just use my browser bookmarks and move interesting providers to the top of the bookmarks list.

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll

There's a reputable site: https://www.virustotal.com which will take an uploaded file or a specified URL and run it through (currently) 92 different anti-virus / anti-malware programs to tell you what they all think of it.

So you can check if a site is safe by typing the URL in virustotal.com ?


I browsed to that sites.tempshr.com link provided in this topic, didn't get a security warning or so. Didn't click any link on that specific page.


As for email services I check daily: only the Gmail account in my Gmail app on my phone.
All other accounts (different providers) I only check now and then from my desktop computer.


By the way, in that list that Jeff or Truemagic provided, I see Vivaldi listed as a reliable email when it comes to privacy. I'm not really familiar with Vivaldi ; is that an Italian service?

[Avion]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

I see Vivaldi listed as a reliable email when it comes to privacy. I'm not really familiar with Vivaldi ; is that an Italian service?

Are you really not capable of doing your own research - an internet search could have provided this information in seconds.

[JeremyNicoll]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

So you can check if a site is safe by typing the URL in virustotal.com ?

I don't think VT downloads anything from such a site, let alone analyses what eg JS code on their pages might do; it's asking the a/v vendors whether their software would block the site - the vendors won't tell us precisely why they distrust a specific site. Also you'll notice I tested the whole-site URL not a specific part of the site.

It's possible that although the quoted Norton message only specified the whole site that their URL checker looks more closely at URLs. I suppose it's also possible that the site being checked might be on multiple servers and only some of those might be blocked on eg an IP address-range basis.

See: https://docs.virustotal.com/docs/how-it-works

Note that if you upload file(s) to be checked that VT might share the file with vendors - so don't do this if something is confidential.

For file uploads VT starts by hashing the file; its results are indexed that way so (as is often the case with dubious files) they can tell you all the names that that file has been seen with. You can however avoid uploading files for checks if you just provide their hashes yourself.

There's lots of utilities which will generate hashes; I use (on Windows) HashMyFiles from: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html

Note that on any of the NirSoft pages (lots & lots of excellent utilities!) the download link to use is at the foot of the page NOT the very prominent download links scattered through the page (which are currently for some sort of PDF utility that has nothing to do with NirSoft). Presumably Nir cannot afford to keep his site online without some ad revenue, sadly.

[dryoldlime]

Tsunami member explains:

By the way, in that list that Jeff or Truemagic provided, I see Vivaldi listed as a reliable email when it comes to privacy. I'm not really familiar with Vivaldi ; is that an Italian service?

The Vivaldi browser has an email client as one of its features.

https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/

[mister]

Originally Posted by dryoldlime

I visited that site (ATTEMPTED)
Norton
Threat Secured
We prevented your connection to sites.tempshr.com because it is a dangerous webpage. Threat category: URL:Blacklist

See details(downarrow)
---I am not going to type all that stuff in the details----

I got blocked too luckily https://smry.ai/smartdocs.be/netmail?smryFrom=home came to the rescue