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polonus
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Untiny Fox helps against the tiny url threat...
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July 27, 2010, 09:52:18 PM »
Hi malware fighters,
Posted about this threat before:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=42161.0
You know them, the tiny URL a way to stay under 140 characters easily, but spammers abuse them,
use the firefox add-on to view them untinied,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10181/
There are also ways to pre-view them in the original length for other browsers:
http://prevurl.com/
http://longurl.org/
An example (non-suspicious and non-malicious of course):
http://longurl.org/expand?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffb.me%2FCnr8Busm
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Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 09:58:14 PM by polonus
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