Recently, we saw several customer submissions of a particular URL. One thing that caught my attention: the three submitters suggested three different categories for the rating. (The suggestions were: “Malicious Sources”, “Spam”, and “Scam/Questionable/Illegal”.)
The question is, do they really understand the meaning of the category they chose, or was each person seeing different things on the link/page?
So I spent some time before my lunch break, and here is my analysis on the incident.
First, all the submitters agreed that they received the URL/link in a spam email. So a “Spam” rating would certainly be accurate. Next, I tried to simply browse to the URL. It's a redirect to a scammy "Canadian Pharmacy" site
read more.........http://www.bluecoat.com/security-blog/2013-04-04/spam-scam-or-malware