topic Re: url redirect issue in General Topics

url redirect issue

asabadin — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:37:31 GMT

greetings,

Having problems with this link which get blocked by phishing and other frauds.....

it redirects to a perfectly legit pdf

http://cl.s6.exct.net/?qs=ec6d1417fd5e977ca0aa6f8b2312fa570c2b7b5af100f412180c0f877d9c2580

can anyone advise on how to troubleshoot this......

Many thanks

Re: url redirect issue

_slv_ — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:02:32 GMT

I have BrightCloud datatabase and with it I can open this webpage without any problem. For me its looks like:

Re: url redirect issue

asabadin — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:21:51 GMT

Sorry, I should have elaborated a bit further.....

I can access it, but I'm in a different policy where our group (IT) has phishing and scams set to "alert" , but our staff group has phishing and scams set to block. So I was looking to troubleshoot without having to allow phishing and other frauds....ie just the link.

Thanks inadvance

Re: url redirect issue

dyang — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:30:37 GMT

Hi asabadin,

Is your question why a certain URL is categorized as phishing? If so, can you provide the URL? The one you included in your first post is not categorized as phishing by BrightCloud or PAN-DB.

--Doris