Hillary Clinton Supporters: Be Vigilant!

Having had  increasing technical difficulties over the past several months, two nights ago I decided to run a deep virus scan.  It ran for six hours,  and,  three-and-a-half hours in,  the software found and quarantined one trojan.   Nobody ever needs problems like this,  but,  as the Reuters article below illustrates, as we progress toward 2016,  malicious software could be hiding within attractive-looking URLs and threaten to wreak havoc on your system just when you depend on it most.

I still have, among other Hillary stickers, my 2008 bumper stickers on my car, and also have burned into my memory Hillary's requests that we visit HillaryClinton.com.  That is still hers.  But HillaryClinton.org?  Don't go there!  You will be in for a world of trouble.

Politics | Thu Apr 2, 2015

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Bogus Hillary Clinton website highlights online perils for 2016 candidates

NEW YORK | By Luciana Lopez

 

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds up a book while she attends the early childhood development initiative 'talk to you baby' in Brooklyn, New York April 1, 2015 .

Reuters/Eduardo Munoz

(Reuters) - Hillaryclinton.org bears the likely Democratic presidential candidate's name, but she would not want supporters to go there: some cyber security experts said this week the site contains malicious software.

The site is registered, not to Clinton, but to an administrator in the Cayman Islands. Its existence underscores the challenge 2016 U.S. presidential hopefuls will face in trying to control their digital brands, more important than ever before as voters increasingly turn to the Internet to learn more about candidates.

An examination by Reuters of domains including the full names of eight Republican and four Democratic hopefuls, ending in .com, .org, .net and .info, showed that only a few of those sites appear to be under the control of the candidates.

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