From: Kyle Undefined
Yeah, but common sense is still needed. This game is targeted by so many phishers/hackers/etc and you always have to be careful.
Common sense indeed, if anybody (even a member) sends a link that you don't recognise the Site Name or URL,
(a) Don't click on it / open it till you know / verify what it is,
(b) If something sounds to good to be true, it is, 99.999% of the time,
© If its a link to a runescape clone site, ask yourself why the person sending you the link needs to link you to a site you most likely use daily and close it, if it is a forum post link and wants you to log in, search the quickfind code yourself, or remember you don't need to login to view threads at rs's official site (outside HL section ofc), if you want to post navigate to the thread yourself manually or verify all the services.blahblahblah is 100% accurate before logging in
(d) If possible Bank your gold before you log out and have a bank pin if you are likely to be lazy and just click on everything everywhere, atleast that way you have 3-7 days to go through the recovery process before you lose that much from a hack,
(e) Install good antivirus software and keep it upto date, most also come with phishing detection systems now too (although from experience they are often unreliable or too reliable and cause false positives all the time, but It can't hurt, better to disable it if its causing problems than to not have it at all)