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by agj 5551 days ago
It doesn't sound like the OP tried very hard to resolve this before deducing this was all a scam that had to come to light. McAfee isn't going to resolve this out of goodwill after several email complaints -- I wouldn't trust them to. The OP needs to try harder to light a fire under someone's ass. McAfee has little to nothing to gain from bending to the whim of flagged sites.

To say that the OP's experience would be different as a paying customer, either as a mere AV subscriber or as a subscriber to their hacker-safe service, is an unfounded assumption -- to say the next step is forking over protection money and that this is all a scam is pure sensationalist FUD.

I'm firmly in the skeptic camp. Without any evidence, the OP's site could be legitimately flagged. Also, I sure as hell wouldn't let this linger for 2 years. Maybe I missed something though, I gave up on the comments after a minute, my tolerance to the reddit front page hivemind is very low.

Also - thanks for introducing me to Hanlon's razor, it's now posted in my office.