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To: zeugma

The website listed to go to for signing in to your Microsoft account is not a Microsoft site. How do I know that is not a phishing site meant to get info on how to break in to my computer?


16 posted on 12/29/2015 9:52:05 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom
The website listed to go to for signing in to your Microsoft account is not a Microsoft site. How do I know that is not a phishing site meant to get info on how to break in to my computer?
http://live.com is a Microsoft web site.
20 posted on 12/29/2015 10:19:08 AM PST by Johnny B.
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To: exDemMom
The website listed to go to for signing in to your Microsoft account is not a Microsoft site. How do I know that is not a phishing site meant to get info on how to break in to my computer?
I realize that my first response was inadequate. You are right to question this.

One way to check the ownership of a web site is to go to:

https://whois.icann.org

and type in the web site name. If you do this with "live.com", you will see that Microsoft owns the domain.

21 posted on 12/29/2015 10:28:32 AM PST by Johnny B.
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