Twitter is a success and every day more people joy in the site that mixes social network with microblog. But one of the problems is that Twitter can be used to spread malicious links quickly.

To contain that problem, Twitter is adopting a new posture in relation to the malicious links. Every time that a Twitter user tries to post a link for a malicious site, the site will exhibit an alert with the following sayings: Your Tweet contained the URL to the known malware site!

The change in the approach was identified firstly by F-Secure specialists of safety, that consider it a good measure to stop the spread of links for malicious sites. On the other hand, shortened links that are very used in Twitter still can’t be monitored. Those short links redirect the Twitter users to other sites: and some of them can be malicious and can contaminate computers with virus and other malicious programs.

Some of the services used to reduce the links size, as the Bit.ly check the addresses to see if they take the users to malicious pages. Other services, however, are not as efficient as that.

Via: Geek.