Very important that you develop complete confidence that there isn't anything wrong with your product. It's not uncommon, in fact it's very common, for compromise kits for websites to take measures to avoid detection. A common one is only serving the malicious content when a specific referrer is present (I've seen this be Yahoo Search in the case of compromised Drupal installations multiple times, not really sure why…
Should they then not just reply with "You're on the list because of the malware payload at "?
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#22Yes/no/yes to the above questions means that is where you should look.
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#23Very important that you develop complete confidence that there isn't anything wrong with your product. It's not uncommon, in fact it's very common, for compromise kits for websites to take measures to avoid detection. A common one is only serving the malicious content when a specific referrer is present (I've seen this be Yahoo Search in the case of compromised Drupal installations multiple times, not really sure why…
Should they then not just reply with "You're on the list because of the malware payload at "?
You're not sure which one of your virus payloads set off their screen so you open a ticket. And Microsoft is supposed to tell you exactly how to get off their list again?
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#24It inspires paranoia I tell you.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Does it hurt Microsoft in any way to answer those tickets with "no, your site is participating in a phishing campaign"? And maybe tell the OP how, so that he can clean the malicious material? Ye, it tells bad actors how the detection system works.
No it doesn't. It simply tells that the detection system _has_ worked.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should they then not just reply with "You're on the list because of the malware payload at "?
How does MS know they aren't hosting it on purpose? That might cause them to just change the malicious URL.
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Can you quote one of the shills? I see people saying that OP should verify that it's a false flag. Are those the shills to whom you're referring?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should they then not just reply with "You're on the list because of the malware payload at "?
How does MS know they aren't hosting it on purpose? That might cause them to just change the malicious URL.
How does keeping secret (from the bad guys) where the malware is thwart the bad guys?