Turn Off Advanced Threat Protection in Outlook.com

Anonymous
2017-10-15T00:46:00+00:00

First, I have an @msn.com email address. This is not an Office 365 business email address!

All the links in my email prefaced with the https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com.  Looking this up is part of the Exchange advanced threat protection package which they talk about in Office 365 for business.  How do I turn this off for my personal @msn.com email account.  It is actually causing more problems for me than it "protects" me so I need to turn this off.  How do I turn this off?  Again, this is happening on a personal account, not a business account.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-05T19:41:06+00:00

    I moved all my mail to another mailbox (via Outlook fat client). I am SO happy to receive my mail on another account WITHOUT these crappy links. Did not know it was so good to see the links...

    Next step is to disable the premium (payd) part of hotmail of what indeed has been around 20 years my payd account...

    But doing this Microsoft made it a BIT awkward to do so because they WARN me with the messagethat when I do so I will  ot have access to my premium account anymore. Dont know what that means but I have asked support before doing so.  

    So sad it has to end this way but so happy that I am clean of of these idiot links :-).

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-06T14:21:38+00:00

    I also have Premium and found out they turned it on for everyone with Premium.  It would be nice if they would let people know before doing such things and being able to opt-out or give them instructions so it can be turned off by the user.  It took a while but Outlook support was able to turn it off for my account.  Now I read on a non MS blog that it would be turned on for everyone that has a Office Home or personal subscription who has a Outlook/Hotmail address.  I hope it does not get turned back on for me.

    This reminds me of the stupid family calendar they forced on everyone if you wanted it or not.

    No wonder their products fail. Piss poor communication of features and how it all works.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-14T10:46:44+00:00

    Agree with all the comments about letting users know you're doing something different - and about not being able to switch it off.

    Since Safe Links was introduced to my account (without warning or explanation), clicking on a hyperlink in an email opens up a NEW WINDOW in Chrome (not a new tab in an already open window) on my Mac and then.... does nothing. Zilch. Nada. It does not open the link I've clicked.

    I have to close the new window Outlook has opened in Chrome, go back to Outlook, right click on the link, copy the link, go to my open Chrome window, click to open a new tab, and paste in the link from the email.

    And this is progress?

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-15T15:18:14+00:00

    Opt-in this "servce"!

    We do not want it!

    Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection is a disaster: https://blog.tylerbickford.com/2016/06/16/microsoft-advanced-threat-protection-is-a-disaster/

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-11-19T16:43:30+00:00

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