Thursday, September 19, 2013

Any ideas?

A reader tells me she's getting a message — just in the last couple days — from Trend Micro OfficeScan saying my URL — http://althouse.blogspot.com/ — is "a potential security risk."
Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy....
Risk Level:    Dangerous
Details:    Verified fraud page or threat source
What's that about? I haven't changed anything in the code to this blog recently, just the usual blogging in the usual Blogger software. Seems pretty innocuous!

UPDATE: Commenters helped me out showing me where to click to submit a reclassification request, which I did on September 19th, and on September 24th, I received notice that Trend Micro had changed my blog's "safety rating" from "Dangerous" to "Safe" and my "Content Type" from "Disease Vector" to "Government / Legal." I still don't know what made them flag this blog in the first place, but whatever... it's fixed now. Thanks to all who helped.

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