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Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is ruining Outlook.com
About a week ago, I noticed that all URLs were suddenly extremely long/obscure, and beginning with something like: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= It destroys the URL visibil...
Talking to Microsoft is like talking to a brick wall? This is an insult to brick walls everywhere! How dare you!
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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)
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)
- You 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- Looks like that worked. Thanks
