My family history blog is at:
https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com
But Rootsweb substitutes this:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hayesgreene.wordpress. com&d=DwICAg&c=kKqjBR9KKWaWpMhASkPbOg&r=S1T1XWZTxt1pl5GPV4RRnQMqH_u2LotdGC DXZy821fA&m=w5cvVd44dxQXv5b-EWup0vh-rSHu1AL0Pv76XWNm2Ic&s=gkZE46xSRdijM25X 6rxwEw2-3pcV09RhFW3SWoIAsQ4&e=
I share your concern, but this is the world we live in. Rootsweb is
most likely doing this to protect itself.
I entered >"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.khanya.org.za"
into Safari, and got a reply from Proofpoint that states, "This domain
is part of the cybersecurity system that protects enterprise users from >targeted phishing email and threats."
When I entered the longer "urldefense" URL Rootsweb substituted, it >transferred to your original "hayesgreene" URL.
On Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:51:04 -0400, Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com>
wrote:
I share your concern, but this is the world we live in. Rootsweb is
most likely doing this to protect itself.
I entered
"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.khanya.org.za"
into Safari, and got a reply from Proofpoint that states, "This domain
is part of the cybersecurity system that protects enterprise users from
targeted phishing email and threats."
When I entered the longer "urldefense" URL Rootsweb substituted, it
transferred to your original "hayesgreene" URL.
I'm glad to hear it, but it looks a bit like "hasir of the dog that
bit you" to me -- make legitimate URLs look like malware to protect
against malware? The logic escapes me.
Of course one issue with Rootsweb here is that it doesn't seem to have
been well explained, and one danger with this sort of thing is if only a >small part of your mail gets such protections, then it is easier to fall
for other unprotected mail to use something similar to disguise
something dangerous.
Now I suppose I could copy that and paste it into my browser, but what
does it mean?
How do I know that that isn't malicuious code that is going to format
my hard disk or something?
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