Questionable URL and Netgear Armor

[wraith808]

I recently signed up for a trial of the netgear armor service through my router.  I figured that you can't have too much protection, and I like a lot of the analytics in it, so was thinking of actually continuing after my trial.  I received my first alert today- several times, two of my machines tried to hit https://skydrive.wns.windows.com/.  As I know that windows.com is legit, I was thinking it was a false positive- maybe some reference to skydrive still in onedrive or something.  But to be safe, I tried it on archive.is, and this was the first time that site didn't work to retrieve a URL, so now I'm a bit concerned about it.  I checked it on virustotal and it came up OK, but the inability to retrieve it still has me concerned.

Does anyone know anything about that url?

[rgdot]

WNS is windows notification service, not being able to go to it via browser, whether directly, archived or otherwise, doesn't necessarily make it malicious.

[wraith808]

Thanks!  I've submitted it as a FP.   

[Deozaan]

But to be safe, I tried it on archive.is, and this was the first time that site didn't work to retrieve a URL, so now I'm a bit concerned about it.  I checked it on virustotal and it came up OK, but the inability to retrieve it still has me concerned.

-wraith808 (October 11, 2019, 08:23 AM)

Some sites don't like archiving services, and actively block them. The workaround is to use a URL of some service that loads another site for various reasons.

For example, there's a site called Hypothes.is that allows you to add annotations to any webpage. You can get it to load any site by adding https://via.hypothes.is/ in front of the normal URL.

So for example, I archived this thread using the above method here: https://archive.fo/vOeb9