Question very weird "https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=" being added automatically before all of my links in gmail - do I have malware?

[tsomek]

Hi all

I noticed today some of the links inside of emails in my gmail aren't quite working. (this is on windows 10 & firefox)


On closer look, it seems this "https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=" is being added before all of my links...! (see screenshot here https://pasteboard.co/MQHpTjSWrWvl.jpg)


I just ran malwarebytes - no detections. (running spybot as I write this)

I also deactivated all my extensions just in case, but the issue remains.

I did a whois on the domain and it belongs to barracuda.com - which has somewhat shady reviews on trustpilot..


Does anyone recognise what this is?

Do I have malware?

And how can I get rid of it?

Many thanks!

 

[rgd1101]

What is https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url? - SCD Information Technology

These are safe to click on. We were signing up a new user to a website, but the email the user received had the username and password changed to “https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?….”. It turned out to be the new Barracuda spam filter the client had put in was blocking the “username” and...

blog.scdit.com

at home or at work? spam filter, what anti virus/malware are you running?

 

[tsomek]

I work from home

I just did more digging, and it seems it's only on some email threads - my original sent out links look intact.

I'm suspecting a client of ours has a company-wide spam filter or something that alters all links.. and which mess up the links in the email threads -- would that make sense?


Many thanks!

 

[rgd1101]

yup that would make sense