There are more and more suspicious links that, if we click on them, we could be giving our data to any criminal.
WhatsApp will notify you of malicious links
There are more and more fake news that reach you through links that have been spread through WhatsApp.
Taking advantage of the confidence that receiving a message from one of our contacts gives us, we can make the mistake of clicking the link.
But, according to the Android beta version 2.18.204, WhatsApp will have a system that will detect malicious links.
But which links will be suspicious?
The first question we ask ourselves is which links will be considered bad links.
Will be all those URLs that redirect to web pages with viruses or malware that could infect our devices.
Or those URLs that may expose our personal information, putting our privacy at risk.
Even those URLs that lead to scam websites.
This will prevent us from clicking malicious links, and even from sharing them by inertia, without having read them.
How will the notice be?
Through a screenshot of Wabetainfo we have been able to observe how WhatsApp will warn of malicious links.
In the message we receive with the suspected malicious link, a red rectangle will appear in the upper left corner, with the letters in white: “Suspicious link”.
Although everything is provisional, because as we have told you, it is a beta version.
If despite the warning you risk clicking on the suspicious link, another warning will appear warning us that the website we are about to visit may be posing as another.
But, if we are determined, it will let us enter the suspicious website, under our responsibility.
What we still don't know is how WhatsApp will know that it is a malicious link.
Maybe we are the users themselves who report suspicious links, but will there be an automated system that detects them?
Will you also alert us to fake news?
Be that as it may, it is a very interesting function that will prevent us from falling into fraudulent links that put our device and our privacy in check.
