Quote Originally Posted by NotLKH View Post
The original "complaint" was that certain security agents {TrendMicro} have www.redirectingat classified as a potentially harmful URL, and blocks all links that refer to it.

Therefore, I cannot even link directly to VBWire News articles, let alone external links in users posts.

In terms of VA's "Bad Ethics" observation, without notifying us users {And apparently TPTB about this} then it is very similar to hijacking someones efforts for someone elses benefit.

Perhaps a user option could be put in place to disable the redirect if a user has issues with this?
false positives are not uncommon. On our general PC troubleshooting forum, even the well respected ESET NOD32 antivirus went off like a bomb whenever somebody using it opened a thread in our hijack this forum. Now there was nothing remotely harmful in that thread, merely the name of some Malware on a user's computer, which appeared in his hijack this log. So this highly respected antivirus reacted to mere text as though it were the actual executable.