How Can I Tell If a Website Is Safe?
❌ We're often enticed or directed to websites we've never been to before. I'll walk you through a couple of tools to help gauge the safety of websites. ❌ Checking a website for safety There’s no perfect way to know if a website is safe, but you can check with tools like VirusTotal, Norton Safe Web, and Web of Trust. Use good security software, and trust your gut. If something feels off, stay away. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/29503 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ How Websites Remember You: Diving into Cookies & More ▶ • How Websites Remember You: Diving into Coo... Chapters 0:00 How Can I Tell If a Website Is Safe? 0:50 What is safety? 1:40 Online tools 1:55 Virus Total 3:10 Norton Safe Web 3:45 Web of Trust 4:36 Crowdsourcing: good and bad 6:52 DNS Blocking 8:10 Browser blocking ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more! #askleo #website #safe

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