• Norton Safe Web giving a spurious warning about AskWoody

    Posted on July 5, 2018 at 14:33 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Many years ago, I had the same problem.

    Norton Safe Web is saying that there is an

    Identity Threat / Phishing Attack in location/on page
    https://askwoody.com/2018/hotmail-outlook-pop-server-switcheroo

    which is preposterous. A quick glance at the page shows a handful of links to Microsoft sites.

    Norton’s warning is a classic false positive, generated by an aberrant algorithm.

    I’m going through the steps to get this site evaluated by Norton, bless their pointed little heads. In the interim, if you’re using Norton Safe Web, ignore it. Better, get rid of Norton entirely.

    UPDATE: The re-evaluation instructions say it’ll take two weeks. Oh boy.

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