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  cristinabentley · Member · Jan 19, 2021 at 10:19 pm

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  Hi there, this morning we sent an email sharing our new blog post (we do this weekly). A couple of people have reported an error message when clicking on the link (which I tested in advance without any issues). The message says: This website has been classified as malicious.

  Has WP encountered any issues similar to this recently?

  Thank you!

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jan 20, 2021 at 9:29 am

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  Hi there!

  Could you please post here the link you shared in your email?

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  cristinabentley · Member · Jan 20, 2021 at 4:24 pm

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  Hi there, sure, the link to the blog post that we sent out via Mailchimp is this here, which seems fine: https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2021/01/19/can-climate-efforts-be-the-everything-policy-store/

  It looks like the two people who received the errors, their link shows up as this below, something that says safelink Outlook? Does this mean that these individuals are using Outlook email and it’s blocking them from opening WordPress?

  https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fberkeley.us13.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Ded42abc90348afd39994b0fbb%26id%3Ddd48f764a5%26e%3D2fa8ae60d1&data=04%7C01%7Calvin.klevorick%40yale.edu%7C810cbf1187a8420c33dd08d8bc9d751a%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637466731750084392%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vutOicjtN8p9O%2BUJ53gUkCn288xUhGFfm1sNE2bq7DU%3D&reserved=0

  And the error message has a warning sign and says:

  

  This website has been classified as malicious.
  Opening this website might not be safe.
  https://berkeley.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed42abc90348afd39994b0fbb&id=dd48f764a5&e=2fa8ae60d1

  We recommend that you don’t open this website, as opening it might not be safe and could harm your computer or result in malicious use of your personal data.

  Powered by Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 20, 2021 at 5:38 pm

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  Those Outlook links are appended by the Outlook email service, they’re a security measure.

  I don’t see anything on the site though that would trigger this at all. I recommend the Outlook user report this to Microsoft as a false-positive.