# Why is Google Chrome flagging my email server?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-chrome-flagging-my-email-server/789845>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 25, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-chrome-flagging-my-email-server/789845 "2017-06-25T17:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-chrome-flagging-my-email-server/789845/1 "2017-06-25T17:40:44Z")

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Chrome now insists that [centurylink.net](http://centurylink.net), my home page and the portal to my email server, is a phishing site. Neither my home button nor Google’s own link to the site works. Does it make a difference that the address is supposed to be preceded by http:// and that Chrome keeps automatically stripping that header off? Malwarebytes and Avira did not detect any trojans in my system.

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**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-chrome-flagging-my-email-server/789845/2 "2017-06-26T03:31:51Z")

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Well, I went to the site you offered on Chromium and Google said nothing. Admittedly Google is often dumb, but in your case it may be a certificate mismatch. There’s no little https:// shield ( as one would expect from a site this size ) and information says insecure site. That’s only a guess. However Google itself has forgotten to renew certificates in the past.

Obviously I am not running any anti-virus stuff nor a firewall, but Google generally flags sites it’s unhappy about.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-chrome-flagging-my-email-server/789845/3 "2017-06-26T05:20:09Z")

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If you’re using the correct URL (and not, say, [centuryIink.net](http://centuryIink.net) or something), then I don’t know. I’m not having trouble on my computer, either.

Any unknown extensions appearing in your extension list? Have you tried disabling all extensions to see if the problem goes away? Maybe one of them is going to a site Google thinks is a phishing site.

And, no, there’s no relevance to Chrome chopping off the http:// part. That’s just how Chrome works. Though, really, if you’re doing email, they should be using https://, which should not be dropped.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-chrome-flagging-my-email-server/789845/4 "2017-06-26T13:23:27Z")

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[Moderating]

Unless phish-flagging is some secret art form I hadn’t heard of, this should be in GQ. Moving.