Submission + - Microsoft falsely classifies sites as phishing
An anonymous reader writes: As of this morning, it appears Internet Explorer 7 and 8 are blocking large blocks of the Internet by falsely identifying sites as phishing sites. The block appears to cover a large number of "pseudo-TLDs", including uk.com, us.com, de.com and others. Unfortunately, many individuals and businesses that have their own DNS space underneath these domains are affected — try a google search for "uk.com", and try some of those sites. One company I am in contact with has had all it's public facing sites, customer portals and even their own internal intranet sites blocked by IE, as it appears to identify these sites as "unsafe" solely by looking at the last part of the FQDN. It raises interesting questions of trust and liability — given that the block list and listing / delisting process is shrouded in secrecy (there is a web form you can fill in, but I'm told that actually getting hold of a real person is nigh on impossible, as is getting any kind of time scale for removal), how are business owners to react when they are effectively knocked off the internet by some over-zealous administrative cock-up ?
