Solution To OpenDNS Phishing Threat

Do you own a website? Is google blocking your website as having a phishing threat? Do you desperately need a quick solution to this egregious phishing problem? If you can answer yes to any of the above-posed questions, then this article is for you.

Consequently, this article seeks to provide you with a quick solution to “this site has been blocked due to phishing threat“. For those of us that own websites, we all know how frustrating it could be, knowing that neither you nor your site visitors can have access into your site due to the infamous phishing threat warning as can be seen from the picture below;due to phishing threat

Google chrome can even worsen the issue by giving you a warning message like ” this site that you are visiting is not secured” with the advanced option to proceed to the site at your own risk even when you have an active SSL certificate installed on your site. Clicking on the advanced option to proceed will only redirect you to the OpenDNS Page.

When this happens, you begin to wonder what and where you have gone wrong, especially when you are relatively new on website ownership. You can turn to your domain name provider for help, but unfortunately, there is only but a little the can do to help you out because the problem is not from their end.

How do you solve this issue of this site is blocked due to phishing threat openDNS? That’s what I want to show you presently. So read on to find out. But before that, I will attempt to answer one important question. vis;

What Is A Phishing Threat?

Phishing threat as defined by Wikipedia.org is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Typically carried out by email spoofing or instant messaging, it often directs users to enter personal information at a fake website that matches the look and feel of the legitimate site.

From this observation, it’s only logical to observe that Google doesn’t just wake up one morning to flag sites as phishing sites. No. Something must have led google to flag your site as a phishing site. Hence, understanding what might have a cause that would be a great way of solving that problem. This leads me to the next topic.

Why Is My Site Flagged As A Phishing Site?

The first solution to every problem is problem identification. Hence, understanding what led to the phishing threat notice on your site is an exercise in the right direction.

If any part of your site requires some personal information from your readers or subscribers, then, by all means, you need to have the SSL certificate installed on your site. The SSL certificate provides your site with an extra layer of security against identity and information theft.

Hence, you search through your site to determine if any of your pages seek some personal information from your clients. If yes, then you should try installing an SSL certificate on your site, which will make your site move from an HTTP to an HTTPS, which is a secure connection protocol that protects the information of your readers. Once you install the SSL certificate, the next thing to do is to force redirect your visitors from the HTTP server to the HTTPS version of your site. Refer to our post for a detailed guide on how to install an SSL certificate and force redirect it to your HTTPS site.

Another possible reason may be because your site has been hacked by hackers. Hackers may have invaded your site, and have installed phishing codes on some of your domain which you may not have known about. Hence, identifying the page becomes a problem.

If its difficult for you to find the phishing content, then it will be advisable for you to hire a service professional who will do it for you because google will never remove the phishing threat warning until all the phishing content on your site is completely removed.

How To Fix This Site Is Blocked Due To A Phishing Threat OpenDNS

There is much troubleshooting you can do to fix this issue immediately. However, the easiest one for the nontechnical guys is discussed below:

Write to OpenDNS support via this link.

The site will look like the one on the pics below.

opendns support link

Put your email address in the field for it.

In the subject area put Phishing threat warning

Your Description should be something like this:

Hi, i am ************, i bought a new domain name on ******************* from (your domain provider) and hosted it on (put your hosting company) from where i activated my SSL certificate. My problem is that Google always flags my site Https://***********.com anything that I visit it.

I have contacted both My Domain name providers and hosting company and the both said that they cannot help me, hence referring me to you people.

It should be noted that the phishing problem doesn’t always come up, as my site opens well at times. Please, any assistance from you will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

NOTE that the above is just a quick guide as you are at liberty to change the test at will. After which click on send and wait to an automated mail from OpenDNS, informing you that your information has been received. That is all that you should do for now. Await further instructions from them, once it gets to your turn, their team of engineers will visit your site and sort out the issue. Your site should be back online without that phishing warning again.

While the above method may be effective, it must be stressed here that it takes a lot of time, as the agency that you are writing to respond to queries base on the principle of first come first serve. However, if you want to expedite actions, then I strongly recommend that you install a particular plugin called REALLY SIMPLE SSL. This plugin does the tedious work for you in the most simple ways.

All that is required of you is to install the plugin in your WordPress dashboard and activate it. Once installed and activated, head over to the plugin section in your WordPress dashboard and click on installed plugins, from there, locate and open the really simple SSL plugin and configure it. The settings are quite simple and should look like this.

stop opendns phishing threat 

Once you are done with the basic settings as shown on the pics above, hit on the save button and everything should be fixed instantly. Remember, this site at https://www.Buzzfeedng.com.com had such an issue and I was able to solve it with the help of this amazing plugin.

Note: For the plugin to work for you, you would need a valid and active SSL certificate installed on your WordPress site

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