Touch-here.site Messages - How to remove

As the Holidays are coming closer, you’re likely to encounter links to Touch-here.site. That’s because Touch-here.site is a digital postcard site that allows people to share an animated greeting. A user gives their name to Touch-here.site, which creates a custom message that can be shared on WhatsApp.

Although random mysterious links in WhatsApp should not be trusted, the Touch-here.site one is not necessarily harmful. It does look very suspicious, though, and shows how malicious websites could trick people to cause real problems.

About Touch-here.site:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Touch-here.site	It is styled like many malicious websites, it shows how your contact information could be misused.
How social media messages could be dangerous	They could be used to spread malicious programs and apps that steal personal information and hijack the system’s resources, they could spread scams.
How to deal with Touch-here.site links	Ask the sender about the link, protect your personal information, use antivirus tools (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

Is Touch-here.site safe?

Unexpected message

Links to Touch-here.site are often shared in social media sites and messaging apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp. You may be suspicious about what the link is, as Touch-here.site’s private WhatsApp messages look incredibly suspicious:

• They claim that someone has sent you a private message and tell you to click a link to see it. This is a classing phishing tactic.
• They’re full of emojis, which is pretty common for scams.
• Touch-here.site’s name is reminiscent of the names of various notification spammers, such as Check-out-this.site and Very-important.online.

Despite the Touch-here.site links looking suspicious, they’re usually safe. Most likely, the message you got was just a link to a postcard created by one of your friends.

Is it a virus?

Online greeting cards and e-cards are very often scams. It is advised to avoid opening them. A malicious greeting card could infect your device with malware. Even the Emotet trojan has been spread as a Thanksgiving card.

Malicious links could infect your phone with trojans, that it’ll cause pop-up ads to be shown on your device, and that you’ll start experiencing malicious redirects. But I haven’t seen any evidence that Touch-here.site is malicious.

Even though Touch-here.site may not be dangerous, this does not mean that any random link received in a WhatsApp message is safe to click. WhatsApp, like most social networks, is used by malicious websites and scammers to spread and find new victims. They send links similar to those of Touch-here.site’s, but actually dangerous and harmful. They could lead to malicious apps and phishing scam sites that could result in clickers, advertising spam, and other problems.

And the thing about online scams is that they don’t need to be technologically sophisticated – they just need to be clever in their presentation. So, stay on your toes this upcoming holiday season and encourage your family and friends to be careful, too.

Online greeting

Touch-here.site offers greetings for New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Independence Day, and other occasions. The different greetings all use the same animations, which is a bit disappointing. All that changes is the name that the person who sent the greeting typed in Touch-here.site’s form.

The greetings shown by Touch-here.site are very garish and could be unpleasant to see and hear. However, this does not make them harmful.

By the way, Touch-here.site is monetized with advertisements – every greeting displays an ad. Luckily, these ads ought to be safe. They’re probably by Adsense, as they redirect through Doubleclick.com, which means that both the Touch-here.site website and the ad should obey certain standards.

How to deal with Touch-here.site links

In order to stay safe from malware, you should always:

• Install the latest updates for your apps and your operating system.
• Use a good antivirus program.
• Be protective of your personal information.
• Be suspicious of unfamiliar links.

Do not click on unfamiliar links. There’s a good reason why so many suspect Touch-here.site of being malicious.

If you get a suspicious link, ask the sender about what it is they just sent. This way, you will avoid clicking on malicious spoofed messages or interacting with a hacked account (hacked accounts are used by crooks to spread malicious links to the account’s contacts).

Most importantly, don’t provide your personal information to unfamiliar websites. Especially not your payment information.

Touch-here.site’s privacy policy has nothing suspicious in it, so hopefully, any names and other info given to it should not be abused. However, that doesn’t mean that every greetings site is safe. Tell the people around you to not share your contact information with random websites.

Software updates are as important to your security as a good antivirus program. So, allow your computer, phone, and tablet to install new updates as needed and regularly scan your device with an antivirus program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others.

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