ABC News is being blocked.

[Andrzej1]

Once again the URL shortener is being blocked.  My question is does Malwarebytes block all URL shorteners by default and do they need to be white-listed on a case by case basis?

[AdvancedSetup]

Do you have the actual link you can post here, please?

 

 

[Andrzej1]

11 minutes ago, AdvancedSetup said:

Do you have the actual link you can post here, please?

 

 

Sure, here you go: https://t.co/smMP4CDe6X

[AdvancedSetup]

Thank you @Andrzej1 . Rakesh  should be by tomorrow to take a look at this. Thank you for reporting

@rakeshsejwal

[Andrzej1]

2 minutes ago, AdvancedSetup said:

Thank you @Andrzej1 . Rakesh  should be by tomorrow to take a look at this. Thank you for reporting

@rakeshsejwal

You're most welcome!

[alvarnell]

If I were in charge, I woul certainly be in favor of blocking all url shorteners since the only way to know where you will land is to activate preview mode for that shortening service to see wher you are being redirected to. Most people don't do that and some services don't offer it. Way too easy to use these to maliciously redirect users to fake sites.

[BillH99999]

I would agree.  Just a personal choice, but I would never click on a link like this no matter who sent it to me or came across it.

[BillH99999]

I meant "or where I came across it".

[rakka]

abcn.ws has been whitelisted, I would recommend using the full URLs in future.