If you click that, you will not go to Microsoft’s web site, you will go to one of our pages. This is the easiest deception to do and the easiest to detect. In most browser, you should be able to hover over that link and tell right away where you’ll end up if you click it. Your can also right-click it and copy the actual URL and paste\u00a0 it into Notepad or an email and see where it leads.<\/p>\n
A more devious way, and the method that many scammers use is simply create sub-domains that have the same name as the site they want you to think you’ll go to if you click the link. Like this:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/microsoft.support.marvypc.com<\/p>\n
If you’re not paying attention, you’re tired, distracted or otherwise not concentrating, you may see the Microsoft support and click a link like that. But it would not take you to Microsoft, it would take you to Marvy PC where you may find yourself in an tech support scam imbroglio. And you sure don’t want that.<\/p>\n
So look at the 3 links below and guess which one will take you to Microsoft and which one will take you someplace else in the wild blue wander:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/microsoft.support.fixurpc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/support.mircosoft.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n If you clicked them, not good. But if you did or didn’t #2 is the correct link to Microsoft’s support site. The other two will lead you into never-never land – but luckily for you, we have your back. We fixed the bad links to they go to a safe page.<\/p>\n When you search you need not only be wary of the links you’ll see, you’ll need to be careful that the search result(s) you’re clicking are not ads or scams or worse. Many many people have been taken down he primrose path by the words “Microsoft Certified\u00a0 Partner”. It means nothing. It doesn’t mean what you think it means – it does not mean Microsoft approved a site or service.<\/p>\n Above we searched for Display Drivers. Bad search! If you’re searching for display drivers visit the web site of your manufacturer of your display drivers (AMD Radeon, Intel, Nvidia, etc.)<\/p>\n You can see that this uses a trick. It uses the brand name Windows in the URL, and in “Windows 10 Ready” thus making it appear that this place has the right drivers for your Windows 10 computer.<\/p>\n We have 3 things to say about that:<\/p>\n Below:\u00a0 We type in another popular but BAD search term “Windows Help”. Not one of these has anything do with Microsoft support or help from Microsoft.<\/p>\n And notice (below) how far down you have to scroll before you find real the real Microsoft and the real Microsoft support site.<\/p>\n And worse, if you keep scrolling you’ll see other help\/support sites using the word Microsoft and Windows that are not labeled “Ad”.<\/p>\n Of course, this does not just apply to searches for Microsoft support, Windows help, or driver searches, it applies to almost anything where there’s money to be made either by getting you to call a number, download something or scaring you into buying something.<\/p>\n Be careful what you search for, take your time when you weed through the search results, and as we always tell you:<\/p>\n Be Careful What You Search For… and Think Before You Click There are enough scams on the web without bringing them to your PC with a poorly worded search. In this short tip, we’re going to give you a few tips on what you can do to avoid causing yourself big problems by poorly worded searches – and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1433,1680,1675,10],"tags":[2160,2080,589,2158,2159,1684,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14446,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions\/14446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/badseardh.png\")
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\nAbove:<\/strong> A truly terrible search term – guaranteed to get you in big trouble. At least all of these search results are labeled “Ad”.\u00a0 In search results like these, think “Ad=Bad”. Note how often the word Microsoft and Windows and Windows and Windows versions are used to mislead you. Don’t fall for this kind of trickery.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/badsearch3.png\")
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