I'm looking at some nice prices to rearrange your coins! Hodl if you must, this is a long awaited correction, this uptrend in past months had to end somewhere. We're just rolling into the 2018 coasters! Strap up!
Telegram is most likely a proven method to gather less bots and more convinced peopled. Also it has a lot of advantages, it does not competes with social network because it's made for somewhat different purpose. You can gather and inform people with using another stream of data, which should not be completely relied on, but should be considered as an indicator for things like ico success and so forth.
I have long ago on my own mistakes realized that opening any links is very unsafe. Therefore, I usually use either a sandbox for windows (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandboxie) or a virtual machine. This is very useful in terms of security.
Using bootable windows could also be an problem solver here. Thanks for spreading the word.