Showing posts with label unsafe website warning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unsafe website warning. Show all posts

Friday 17 March 2017

Working fine in IE but chrome reporting the site as dangerous - deceptive site ahead

Or, Dangerous site reported by chrome working fine in Internet Explorer
Or, "Deceptive site ahead" error in chrome, working fine in IE

Descriptions: You may face this error while browsing some sites. This may behave deferentially in different browsers. In my case, it was working fine with Internet Explorer but when I tried to open the same URL in chrome, it was showing me this error.

Error Message:
Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on mysite.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers or credit cards).
Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google. Privacy Policy


Error Screenshot:
















Solution/Workaround:

Go to Chrome Settings

























On the bottom of the page, click on “+Show advanced settings”














Scroll down and go to Privacy section > Un-check “Protect you and your site from dangerous sites” > Try to browse the site again, it should be fine.












Other recommendations:
It’s good to check with the site developer and ask them to fine tune the site if this issue is being reported on your newly created websites.

Some useful information about this behaviour are as below:

Cheers, please write me back if you have any query or feedback on this.