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• Active discussion of the AskWoody block on the Norton Community site

  Posted on July 8, 2018 at 07:27 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Thanks to all of you who have been helping, particularly @SoulAsylum.

  There’s an active thread about false positives being thrown by the latest version of Norton Safe Web, and AskWoody features prominently.

  If you care to chime in, any support would be most welcome.

  If you haven’t been following along, Norton Safe Web users are seeing a block on AskWoody.com in general, with this warning:

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

  And if you look at that page, it’s quite harmless.

  UPDATE: The Surfing Pensioner reports that Norton is no longer throwing bogus site warnings. We’re coming up five bars on the Norton Safe Web report.

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• Norton Safe Web giving a spurious warning about AskWoody

  Posted on July 5, 2018 at 14:33 CDT by woody • 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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