McAfee flagged my website — how removal works
CATALOG ENTRY VERIFIED 2026-09-21
To dispute a McAfee WebAdvisor rating, register at McAfee's Customer URL Ticketing System (sitelookup.mcafee.com), check the URL and click Submit URL for Review, explaining why the rating is wrong and what you changed. McAfee states requests average 3–5 business days. If the site is still rated risky after 5–7 days, McAfee's support article gives an email address for a status check.
| List type | antivirus engine |
|---|---|
| Channel | Web form |
| What unflagdomain does | Prepares the text and the exact place to submit it |
| Step-by-step guide | McAfee Blocking My Website: How to Dispute a WebAdvisor Rating |
| Longer read | Why McAfee flags clean sites |
What McAfee is
McAfee WebAdvisor (consumer) and the Trellix / Skyhigh web reputation service (enterprise, formerly TrustedSource) rate URLs. Ratings are looked up and disputed through McAfee's site lookup portal.
What a McAfee flag looks like
A red WebAdvisor warning page, or a red rating in the McAfee browser extension.
Why clean sites end up flagged here
- A past compromise — an injected redirect, spam pages, a phishing directory — that the engine recorded and has not re-scanned since the cleanup.
- A file hosted on the site (an installer, an archive) that matched a signature, which flags the URL that served it.
- A verdict copied from another engine's feed, so the flag appears here days after the original source.
- A genuinely clean page that the engine's heuristics read as suspicious: obfuscated JavaScript, a login form, a redirect chain.
How a removal request reaches McAfee
This vendor takes website reports only through its own web form, usually with a CAPTCHA and sometimes an account, so a person has to submit it. The form is the only path into its review queue.
The exact portal, the fields it asks for, a template and the reasons requests get rejected are in the McAfee false-positive guide.
What unflagdomain does for this vendor
When a scan shows this vendor flagging your domain, your dashboard gets a prepared card for it: the vendor's form, the exact URL, and the text to paste. You submit it; the vendor replies to you.
This is one of 133 vendors in the catalog. A scan shows which of them flag a domain right now; the €39 dispatch covers every one that does.
McAfee is an antivirus URL-reputation system: its verdict on a domain reaches everyone who runs that product, and it surfaces through multi-engine scanners such as VirusTotal, where other products and firewalls read it. A past compromise — an injected redirect, spam pages, a phishing directory — that the engine recorded and has not re-scanned since the cleanup. A file hosted on the site (an installer, an archive) that matched a signature, which flags the URL that served it.
Clean the site first and verify it from outside. Then this vendor takes website reports only through its own web form, usually with a CAPTCHA and sometimes an account, so a person has to submit it. The form is the only path into its review queue. The McAfee guide on this site has the portal, the fields and a template.
McAfee's ticketing system states requests are addressed within an average of 3–5 business days, some taking longer; its support article says to recheck after 5–7 days. Not measured per vendor yet. In our most recent measured dispatch, all 12 flagging vendors had cleared within 15 days.
When a scan shows this vendor flagging your domain, your dashboard gets a prepared card for it: the vendor's form, the exact URL, and the text to paste. You submit it; the vendor replies to you. We guarantee the request is sent or prepared; McAfee decides the outcome.