Okay, so i opened an email that had an odd subject out of curiosity (something I should avoid....curiosity) and discovering it was a goofy and obvious phishing email, I did NOT click on the internal link, deleted the email, emptied my trash (you never can be too sure!) and went on, minding my own business. I have been told that just opening an email will not download anything nasty onto my computer, so didn't think anything about it.
About ten minutes later I clicked on a link to a site I have safely clicked on almost daily for a long time and Webroot hit me with "the screen" that the link was unsafe and listed two identical links. I quarantined them and followed the directions to get rid of them. Webroot finished the scan, found another one and got rid of it, then ran another scan until it came up clean.
For the next several days, I'd get one or two Webroot screens for "suspicious activity" a day, which is really unusual, so would back out of whatever I was trying to access, but it seemed weird as they were not usually problem sites. That has mostly stopped with only an occasional screen popping up now.
One....has it become unsafe to open an email? Two....has anybody else had more activity with Webroot catching more "suspicious activity" screens lately? I'm mostly curious (oops....there's that curiosity again!) Nothing stranger than usual is acting up on my computer, but I'm running an iMac and figure I have a better than even chance that anything downloaded would be basically ignored by my system. I know there is more out there attacking i-Everything now, but still......
I'm still happy to have Webroot watching out for me and my computer. Hope everybody is having a good spring!
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