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I have been redoing my website. Today, I just finished redoing all my "PayPal" add to cart and view cart buttons and was checking out my site, when a phishing warning came up, as I was viewing my baby page. What do I do about this?  I am a legitimate business. Why did this report come up? Help!

Karen

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kkrafts
"Treat every day as a new adventure"

You mean your browser gave you that warning?

I`ve never seen something like that. It didn`t happen to me though.

Are you using Internet Explorer with the security set really high?

Well I tried setting it to the highest security in IE6/WinXP and I can`t get a message like that ...

Yes, my browser  gave me the warning. I clicked on products and then on baby baskets and the warning came up, or should say dropped down from my address bar, it also did it when I clicked on the general baskets icon. I do use internet explorer, but my security setting is at medium. I`ve never seen this before. The warning said not to trust my site, that it could be a phishing site, and not to give it any information. I`ll try it again.

Thanks karen

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kkrafts
"Treat every day as a new adventure"

O.K. I tried again and after a couple of clicks, I get the warning again. I`m going to contact Paypal and Yahoo and see what`s up. I`ll let you know what happens.

Karen

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kkrafts
"Treat every day as a new adventure"

O.K. these are the steps I took. I typed in the address bar www.myuniquebaskets.com  When my home pg. came up, I clicked on the products button, then on the baby basket. When that page loaded, I clicked on the bear basket pic, after it loaded, I clicked the back button and that`s when the warning dropped down from the address bar.

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kkrafts
"Treat every day as a new adventure"

I still can`t get it to happen, even when I increase all my security settings and do exactly what you did.

Are you using IE 7?

I mean, the good news seems to be that most people can get to your site without an error, if I`ve tested it in IE6/WinXP, Firefox/WinXP, and Firefox/MacOS.

Do you have an option on the error to "Report that this is not a phishing website"??

I have a feeling this is not Yahoo! ... it`s an IE7 problem.

I`m glad it`s not happening with you. As long as no one else gets that message, then I`m o.k. There was an option and I clicked on it and nothing came up. I tried that twice. I`ll look into reporting it to microsoft?

Thanks Nikole, I appreciate your help.

Karen

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kkrafts
"Treat every day as a new adventure"

Yes, I definitely think it is more of a Microsoft problem, vs. a Yahoo! problem.

This brings up an interesting point ... users were worried that false positives on this new IE7 anti-phishing programming would hurt legitimate websites. And I think you are a great example of this.

Contacting Yahoo! might help you out, but you will get more results if you can fix the problem by contacting Microsoft which maintains the list of suspect sites.

Other people are having trouble too:

Phishing Website?

The Phishing Filter: Fighting the Modern Day Con Artist
(At the bottom it tells you what to do if you are a site owner and you`re getting a false positive on your own site.)

Death of IE7 Phishing Filter Predicted