Be Careful When Typing URL's

[mr__ed]

I visit a certain Windows forum from time to time The URL is www.tenforumscom. However, I accidentally left out the's' at the end and found myself on a badly infected site. Fortunately, my Norton security saved me. Just a heads up. If you're not familiar already, one letter off can make a big difference! 😉

A scan with Malewarebytes found two "PUP's" and quarantined them.

[fj12ryder]

^^^As all of my previous posts have noted, I'm not referring to a browser address bar. I'm referring to the Address Bar on Windows Taskbar.

[magicbus]

fj12ryder wrote:
Just don't make a mistake when entering the address, because they are a real pain to get deleted once they are in there. 🙂

In Firefox if you hover over the one you want to get rid of you can hit DELETE and it will be gone.

Dave

[2oldman]

fj12ryder wrote:
It works pretty well unless you have a bunch of sites that start with "C" and you visit them more frequently than CNN. 🙂

Well yeah. Then you might have to type 2 letters.

[fj12ryder]

It works pretty well unless you have a bunch of sites that start with "C" and you visit them more frequently than CNN. 🙂

Honestly the Address Bar on the Taskbar works the best, big drop down, or up, menu and you don't even have to open your browser. Just select the address.

[2oldman]

mich800 wrote:

2oldman wrote:
If you insist on typing frequent addresses, at least look at the addy bar and see if it's auto-completing for you. Then all you have to do is press Enter.

That is what I do for frequent sites. Faster than a bookmark. For example, to get to this site I just type r and then enter.

Yes, for CNN it's just C, enter

[mich800]

2oldman wrote:
If you insist on typing frequent addresses, at least look at the addy bar and see if it's auto-completing for you. Then all you have to do is press Enter.

That is what I do for frequent sites. Faster than a bookmark. For example, to get to this site I just type r and then enter.

[2oldman]

If you insist on typing frequent addresses, at least look at the addy bar and see if it's auto-completing for you. Then all you have to do is press Enter.

[fj12ryder]

Just don't make a mistake when entering the address, because they are a real pain to get deleted once they are in there. 🙂

[mr__ed]

fj12ryder wrote:
Nope, you can open an Address Bar window in the Taskbar, at the right side of the screen.

If you do a right click on the taskbar, you'll get the menu for different tool bars, one of which is the Address Bar. That give you the opportunity to have a list of addresses down on the Taskbar/Address Bar, a drop down list of addresses.

Thanks. Never noticed that. Only using W 10 a fairly short time.

[fj12ryder]

Nope, you can open an Address Bar window in the Taskbar, at the right side of the screen.

If you do a right click on the taskbar, you'll get the menu for different tool bars, one of which is the Address Bar. That give you the opportunity to have a list of addresses down on the Taskbar/Address Bar, a drop down list of addresses.

[mr__ed]

fj12ryder wrote:

mr. ed wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
I use the Address Bar down on the taksbar, in Windows 7.

I'm using Windows 10. Address bar is at top, where I would expect it to be.

You have the Taskbar at the top of the screen? I have mine at the bottom. Or does Windows 10 even have a Taskbar?

Of course, W10 has a taskbar at the bottom. But it can be moved by unlocking it and placing it at the sides or top. I suppose that's what you did. You wanted to transpose the address bar and taskbar. I'm not familiar with W7, though. I upgraded from W8.1 to W10. I didn't know here's an address bar on the taskbar. I'll have to check it out.
Oh, I think you mean the search box, which is on the left side of the taskbar. 😉

[fj12ryder]

mr. ed wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
I use the Address Bar down on the taksbar, in Windows 7.

I'm using Windows 10. Address bar is at top, where I would expect it to be.

You have the Taskbar at the top of the screen? I have mine at the bottom. Or does Windows 10 even have a Taskbar?

[DutchmenSport]

Yep! It only takes one character difference between the site you are expecting and a porn site too! Been there, done that! (well, the experience really wasn't all THAT bad! :W )

[mr__ed]

8.1 Van wrote:
I just Google it then click on the link.

My bad. I wrote the wrong URL in my original comment. The proper one is www.tenforums.com. I edited my opening statement with the correction. I had Windows Forum on my mind, I guess.