Norton SCAM Insight Warning
What's Up With This?
Opening one of my Wealthy Affiliate websites today 'https://homebasedaffiliateonlinebiz.com/ , I had one of these pop up page from my Norton antivirus page (Norton Safe Web Extension) , please see the cover picture.
Has anyone seen this at all and what are we to do with this scary warning. Imagine one of our potential readers accessing our website with Wealthy Affiliate and the words Scam Insight pops up infront of you and warning you get out or proceed.
In case it is hard to read the texts on the cover page here they are:
Scam Insight: Personal Information Risk
https://homebasedaffiliateonlinebiz.com/
This site is safe, but…It asks for personal information and is not well established with the
Norton Community. Use caution when entering any of your information on
this site. Visit Norton
to learn more about personal information risk on Web sites.
Age:
New
This website has been available for a short time.
Prevalence:
Few Users
Very few Norton community members have used this site.
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Would appreciate feedbacks on this. I hope Wealthy Affiliate staff sees this post and has a suggestion for a fix.
Thanks a bunch!
Joe
Recent Comments
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I would do two things
One check if there are new updates and update
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/norton-internet-security-blocking-known-safe-sites
Hello Sylvia!
Thanks for the feedback and the link! I will definitely nail this thing down!
Thanks again!
Joe
Hi Joe,
I have been using Norton for years and it happens once in a while that I get the same message from "newer" websites. To ease your mind, I followed your URL this morning and did NOT get the message in question.
However, it has happened to me last weekend while trying to comment on some website actually. Knowing that these sites were not scams, I did proceed to them, but as you say, for someone who is new or unaware, it might scare them away forever.
I have copied the following text from a Norton Community forum.
"Scam insight mostly works on heuristic-based detection [on the fly detection with no database], it is implemented on Norton toolbar.
It make use of inputs like:
1. Does it ask for personal information like credit card, SSN, login information,
2. How new this site is,
3. How many users visited it till now,
4. Suspicious whois info
5. Does it have any suspicious scam keywords
Since scam insight works in client side and it is on the fly detection, on fairly new sites, it may happen that site is rated as untested in safeweb."
If any or none of this applies to you I would contact Norton directly and try and solve this with them at this URL:
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/contact
I hope you can solve this!
Denis
Hello Denis!
Thank you so much for your great feedback! My first stop is Norton and see what is going on. I suspect that there is a certain 'trigger' within my website that tags it as SPAM. Be nice to find out what it could be so I can fix it.
It is hard not to ask for information from readers since we have been trained to have at least a place for folks to throw in their emails and their names in our websites so....
Thanks again for the great info!
Joe
I have had it once before so I corrected it within Norton somehow but I can't remember how Joe sorry
Vicki
Thanks Vicki! I may have to just remove that Norton Extension but that is still not good enough because folks who are accessing my site for the first time and has no knowledge of how to fix Norton will be scared off forever. : (
The question is what could be in my website that triggers Norton to do this?
Thanks again for the feedback! I appreciate it! : )
Joe
I don't think so
Norton can be extremely strict which is great in so many ways however I think now you mention it this is what I did and I will leave it like that and hopefully, visitors to my site won't experience this
I have asked a lot of people here for comments on my site and nobody has mentioned this experience so I feel it will be ok
Hope this help Joe
Vicki
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I have not experienced anything like that before so I can't tell you anything about that I am sorry.
Mary