Clicked on a link OkeyShare

I have a Mac laptop computer: my computer has Sophos Anti-virus (9.4.0) and Safari is my internet browser (6.1.6). I think I use OS X Mountain Lion; I may have improved at El Capitan and forgotten.

About a week ago while watching images of DeviantART on Google, I noticed links to a Web site called OkeyShare. It is a fake website claiming to have work and artists from DeviantART and redirects elsewhere so clicked on user. I did a little research and found that it caused some confusion among users of DeviantART. It is one of the journals a user has posted the question: http://theinfiniteglow.deviantart.com/journal/OkeyShare-What-the-crap-is-this-th ing-562902521. Users are naturally questioned that their job done apparently to an unknown site; Some have had experiences by clicking on a link OkeyShare that claims to have their work on it and redirected to places like hidereferrer.net, imageol, an announcement of coupons jcpenny or site and even some sites of po'rn. Some speculate that it is a "click-bait' scam and hope only these sites don't transmit malicious programs. Needless to say that I have set out to avoid OkeyShare.

However, this morning I googled the title of an image specific to DeviantART and accidentally clicked on a link to OkeyShare. I think that I managed to click the previous page before he completely redirected me to wherever he went and deleted from my history of Safari. However, in Safari preferences I found OkeyShare and hidereferrer.net cookies so I removed the. I scanned my Mac with Sophos Anti-virus and it came back with "no threat found".

What I want to ask is if anyone on this community has heard of OkeyShare, hidereferrer.net or imageol, and they know the potential dangers. Is someone can also tell me what is "click-bait?

Much appreciated,

If you are worried that your have been infected with malicious software simply by visiting a Web site, you don't need to be. This does not happen. You must get rid of "Sophos," which is worse than useless.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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