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The next time you hover over a suspicious link a little too long, or download from a questionable site, you might get a nudge from Fujitsu. The Japanese tech giant has, from the back of a 2000-head study, developed a tool capable of determining if a user was likely to be scammed and delivering a custom warning. Together with …

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  1. DN4

    risk analysis results

    Random noise plotted with nice colour bars is still random noise.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Coffee/keyboard

    darn, i just clicked on it

    Or did I?

    I started reading and thought that the rest of the sentence was going to say 'and if you hover over a link long enough, fujitsu's software will click it for you.' I thought that would save wear and tear on my finger. Or I'll have to stop taking my palsy medication just to fuck with them.

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  3. Oninoshiko

    s/warning/pink slip/g

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  4. tfewster

    Either likely or really unlikely?

    So my cursor hovers over a dodgy link - am I about to click it or am I reading what the link actually is at the bottom of my email client/browser?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Either likely or really unlikely?

      Or are you reading what the malware wants you to think is the link that you think is the actual link being posted at the bottom of your client?

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  5. Mark 85

    Given the way that most users seem to be, they'll just go ahead and click on the "ignore" or "cancel" on the warning anyway.

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  6. David Pollard

    Déjà Vu?

    Do you experience a déjà vu moment when you do click on the link?

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  7. Robert Helpmann??
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    Old School

    This needs to have an apparatus tied to it that ends in a ruler. Every time the user tries to click on a suspect link, WHACK! right on the knuckles. Same with spam. Revenues for these kinds of scams would dry up overnight, malware would be drastically reduced, and network traffic would drop to 1980's levels. Well, maybe two out of three...

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