The Norton and McAfee site-seal shakedown

3 pointsby itsaidpens7 anni fa1 comments

Asking HN - I run a successful ecommerce site and have run across what I perceive to be a "scam" involving antivirus/security companies.

First, it was Norton Antivirus flagging our site as "dangerous" and throwing up a warning to customers that accessed our site. When we contacted Norton, they suggested we enroll in their trusted site system and place a seal on our site. I escalated, and through a personal contact got our perfectly-safe, SaaS (Shopify) hosted site whitelisted.

Now it's happened with McAfee and we're going through the same process. Has anyone run into this before? I believe it's a deliberate sales attempt - there's nothing on our site besides normal ad-tracking (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, etc).

Would love to hear any thoughts on this topic.

1 comments

sarcasmatwork7 anni fa

This might help. Sounds like they are trying to scam you.

Do you have an SSL cert for your domain? Where are you hosting your website?

edit newer URL: https://www.goinflow.com/trust-seals-ecommerce-tests/

https://www.howtogeek.com/199240/all-those-seals-of-approval...