Hello! When I read emails I always pay a lot of attention to suspect messages and so on, but I’m always a bit scared of clicking the wrong link and getting infected by malwares.
What can be some preventive measures I can take to avoid these risks? Perhaps opening links from emails in a different browsers with JavaScript disabled? Soke kind of sandboxing?
I use Thunderbird as mail client
Unless you’re expecting a mail you should never open any links. Just go to the originating page manually.
You can also hover over the links to see the URL they’re pointing to. If it goes to
y0urbamk.comoryourbank.toinstead ofyourbank.comyou know that something is up. But that can be hard to see with strange Cyrillic letters or so. So manually typing inyourbank.comhelps.