"SUSPICIOUS LINK" warnings on emails from Gun Digest

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I am getting Norton warnings (in bright red pop-ups) that every link on every email from Gun Digest is a "SUSPICIOUS LINK".

My Norton product is Norton 360 with LifeLock Select.  I work on an HP mini-tower PC, using Windows 10 Professional, latest update.  My browser is Brave, my search engine is DuckDuckGo, and I use the Norton VPN religiously (...I turn it off only occasionally when accessing the Home Depot website, which won't allow access to VPN-users).

I very recently clicked on a link in a Gun Digest web-page (...or, to be more accurate, what I THOUGHT was a Gun Digest web-page), in order to download free practice targets.  I immediately started getting emails, appearing to come from Gun Digest, each containing many links, but upon mousing over them, every link was flagged by the Norton warning, so I have not clicked on any of them.

I did start to reply to one of these emails to ask if they were aware of the Norton warnings. The return email address, on the surface, appeared to be:

"Gun Digest CCW <gundigest @ news.e-gundigest . com>"

However, upon closer examination, it turned out to be:

"6rbol7u7fk74lzfngd9941trct32cw0r @ news.e-gundigest . com".

This looked suspicious to me, so I canceled my reply without sending it.

Is this a bogus group masquerading as a reputable organization? Or is there truly something wrong with Gun Digest (which up until now, I believed to be a good magazine). Or, perhaps, is this a problem within the Norton software?

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Whatever you did, bjm_, it worked.  All of the emails are now free of the "suspicious link" warnings.  Thanks for your efforts, and I'm glad Norton changed the rating.

Jim

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as test: forwarded gundigest.com e-newletter from Yahoo mail to Gmail. 
I'm not seeing Suspicious Link, at this time.

as a reminder:
before rating was changed.  I was seeing Suspicious Link.

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OffGrid9:

The "Suspicious Link" warnings may have disappeared from YOUR emails from news.e-gundigest.com, but they haven't from mine.  Maybe if I get any NEW emails from them, those warnings will be gone, but they're still there on the emails I've received so far.  By the way, I DID clear my browser's cache, logged off my gmail account and back on again...no change that I've seen, YET.

I will be interested in hearing what response you get from the dispute you submitted.  I've never done that, wasn't sure what it meant to initiate such an action.  I'm sure glad you knew, and that you submitted it.  Thank you again.

~ head scratch... 
I tested news.e-gundigest.com from Yahoo webmail.  I'll try to test from Gmail.  
btw ~ I heard back from my submission.  Safe Web classification Caution was changed to Business/Economy.

https://submit.norton.com/ 

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bjm_, I can't thank you enough for all the effort you've put in on this.  Truly "above and beyond"!

I'd love to check the "solved" box, but I'm not sure.  The "Suspicious Link" warnings may have disappeared from YOUR emails from news.e-gundigest.com, but they haven't from mine.  Maybe if I get any NEW emails from them, those warnings will be gone, but they're still there on the emails I've received so far.  By the way, I DID clear my browser's cache, logged off my gmail account and back on again...no change that I've seen, YET.

I will be interested in hearing what response you get from the dispute you submitted.  I've never done that, wasn't sure what it meant to initiate such an action.  I'm sure glad you knew, and that you submitted it.  Thank you again.

Jim

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https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https://news.e-gundigest.com/

@OffGrid9

btw ~ the Suspicious Link prompts with gundigest.com e-newsletter from gundigest(@)news.e-gundigest.com have stopped...my side.  You may need to clear browser cache.  

 

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Maybe, mal formed e-newsletter images since, I need to allow images in my webmail to see Safe Web Suspicious Link. 
Note: gundigest.com is deemed Safe.  The e-newsletter links that call gundigest.com pages are deemed Caution?
https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https://news.e-gundigest.com/

Suspicious
Sites considered to have suspicious content and/or intent that poses an elevated security or privacy risk. This categorization is determined by analysis of web reputation factors. Also includes sites that are part of the Web and email spam ecosystem. If a site is determined to be clearly malicious or benign, it will be placed in a different category.

Spam
Sites that are part of the spam ecosystem, including sites linked in unsolicited bulk electronic messages and sites used to generate or propagate such messages.

 

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@OffGrid9
as test: signed up for gundigest.com newsletter

gundigest@news.e-gundigest.com

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FWIW ~ I've submitted dispute.  

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bjm_  --  Thanks for the info, and the leads to follow.  If I find out what's causing this, I'll post again.

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OffGrid9:

Is this a bogus group masquerading as a reputable organization? Or is there truly something wrong with Gun Digest (which up until now, I believed to be a good magazine). Or, perhaps, is this a problem within the Norton software?

Maybe, ask 

https://gundigest.com/contact-us what they know about gundigest@news.e-gundigest.com

FWIW ~ 

news.e-gundigest.com lands on https://app.bronto.com/login/index/login/

https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https://news.e-gundigest.com/ = Caution

https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https://app.bronto.com/login/ = Safe

https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https://gundigest.com/ = Safe

as always, your mileage may vary