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High-risk website is blocked.

margarette lincoln

Hi when I'm working online I keep getting signals that a high risk website is blocked. This is distracting. I've run a Sophos scan and it's clean. I'm not aware of trying to access any dubious sites (I might simply be on a library catalogue or BBC News). How do I get rid of these messages?



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    Hello margarette lincoln,

    TANSTAAFL (look it up if necessary) - apparently free services must be funded by some means. Placing ads is one source of earnings. Website operators selling ad space have limited control over the actual source of these ads. Additionally legitimate links on a page (e.g. a library catalogue) can links to an otherwise reputable site which has been compromised (as it's occasionally the case for e.g. smaller non-profit organizations).
    It's not telling you that you are (directly) trying to access a dubious site nevertheless it informs you that something on the page is not necessarily clean (and the message indicates that whatever it could have been has been blocked before it had the chance to get on your computer - therefore the scans are clean).

    You should not turn off the component which tries to protect you. Whether you - or someone else - can turn off the messages depends on the product you are using.

    Christian

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    Hello TANSTAAFL

    Thank you for this - so I definitely won't turn the protection off. But the messages are so frequent - I thought maybe some malware had got onto my laptop.

    Margarette

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    Hello Margarette,

    how frequent is so frequent, for almost every page you visit? Could you post one or two URLs you visit for which this happens (and do you get the balloon pop-up from the Sophos icon or are the signals on the pages)?
    Do you have any browser (which one) add-ons like "accelerators" or "download-helpers"?

    If your SESC installation is centrally managed your site's Sophos administrator should be able to look into it.

    Christian

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