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One of my many criticisms with proofpoint is also that it mangles the links that are coming in.  I used to try to tell my users that one of the things they can look for is to see if the link really goes to where it says it does.  Now all the external emails get mangled with that proofpoint redirection through their servers, so you can no longer tell whether the link even looks legit.  

(My other complaint about proofpoint is that it drops emails without notifying the sender in any manner if it decides it thinks there's malware in it.  I've already had at least one false positive issue with it.  Shortly after we'd migrated a faculty member that wasn't really sold on being migrated to office 365 in the first place.  To have to turn around and say "oh yeah, the malware software sometimes eats emails and doesn't tell anyone" is not exactly confidence inspiring.)

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Heckaman, Timothy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


I hope I’m not the only one that is bothered by this message. I’ve tried long and hard to tell my users to NOT click any links they receive in an email. Now I have to tell them that this one is OK, but not the other ones, and there isn’t an easy way for them to tell other than teaching them about virustotal.com

 

 

Tim Heckaman

IT Administrator
MSU Surplus Store & Recycling Ctr.
IPF

517-884-0362

www.msusurplusstore.com

 

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