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Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is ruining Outlook.com
It is terrible! I understand and appreciate the attempt to reduce the risk of phishing and malicious attacks, but they screwed up my primary method of avoiding them! Now, with the extra-long "safelinks.protection.outlook.com" link replacement, I don't feel safe clicking on any link! This is a major step backwards and a huge hindrance to my ability to determine if a message is legitimate (or a phishing attack) and if a link is safe or not. This "improvement" makes the product worse. Plus, it will probably cause more problems in the long run if it gives people a false sense of security that they will be protected if they click on a malicious link when (not "if") someone figures out how to imitate and hack the system so their malicious links look like the safe one. Unfortunately, this complaint will more than likely fall on deaf ears -- talking to Microsoft often is as effective as talking to a brick wall.
- Barry NelsonAug 20, 2018Copper Contributor
Talking to Microsoft is like talking to a brick wall? This is an insult to brick walls everywhere! How dare you!
- Paul HSep 01, 2018Copper ContributorDo not like!
I’m a user of Cisco SpamCop and any email I determine is spam/phishing gets reported.
This “safelink” appears in an email and I’m trying decipher if it is as safe as it appears to be, or not.
Even I, the suspicious careful checker, thought “this looks different but genuine”!!
Absolutely not. After working to see what the real email sender’s intended URL is, then I follow through with my usual redirect checks and find the final destination is another Canada Pharmacy site in a “.ru” domain,
How do we switch OFF this unhelpful “service” Microsoft? (I have a hotmail.com address and review my emails using the native Apple iOS mail app on my phone, and AltaMail to get at the mail headers)- rpodricSep 06, 2018Bronze ContributorYou have to contact support to get them to turn it off. If at first contact they claim to not know what you're talking about, be persistent. I did this late last year.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/advanced-outlook-com-security-for-office-365-subscribers-882d2243-eab9-4545-a58a-b36fee4a46e2