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Microsoft is destroying my company
It seems that the Microsoft’s Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 is marking perfectly legitimate business websites as suspicious. Without any justification, a message appears warning potential customers that the site might be a phishing website and that they should not provide any information.
This has happened to me and the result is that orders have stopped dead. (Try http://www.ijovent.org.uk/IJV%20Shop.htm in IE7 with the phishing filter turned on to see what I mean). My company takes great effort in ensuring the security of its customers and processes all orders through PayPal to ensure that no financial information is obtained by us.
I consider that Microsoft's approach has put an enormous slur on my company and it is surely a gross abuse of its power.
If any of your other readers run small businesses, I urge them to check that their shopping pages do not display this message in IE7.
I hope that, through PCW, you can stimulate some discussion on this topic.
Martin Liddament
Just tried your site in IE7 with no problems - have MS fixed this?
Posted by Ian Bell | February 12, 2007 9:42 PM
That's interesting: yesterday when I tested the reader's site it showed as a yellow 'warning' flag. Now it's fine with no warnings. Hope it's a permanent cure!
One of our gurus suggested that the space (%20) in the URL was to blame - these are often found in phishing sites. It's better to use an underscore or dash, apparently.
Posted by Kelvyn Taylor, PCW | February 12, 2007 11:05 PM