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Peek behind abbreviated Web links with Unshorten.it |
November 05, 2012
Shortened links are everywhere these days, especially on Twitter, where long Web addresses are at odds with the 140-character message limit.
You've seen them: bit.ly this, ow.ly that, pcwrld.us the other.
Convenient and space-saving though they may be, shortened links can actually be Trojan horses: links that lead you to scam sites aimed at stealing personal information and/or infecting your PC with viruses (including Trojans, ironically).
So how can you vet those links before clicking them? How can you peek behind that shortened URL curtain?
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013522/peek-behind-abbreviated-web-links-with-unshorten-it.html
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