Windows 10: My business website is falsely being blocked bij defender

My business website is being blocked by microsoft defender stating the website is malicious and is used for phishing. I am a small business owner and this is hurting my business. There is no further explanation on this error so I can not see what I can do to solve this quickly. I filled in the 'report this website as safe' form but did not yet get a response from microsoft after several days. We are full owners of this url and the url has all the right certificates in place and we are sure this website is not used for phishing. The url has been working correctly for many years. Th

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How to Block Websites

I have googled a bit and found software that can be used to block websites on a computer. I also found another way by using Windows which I would prefer. My problem is I must be doing something wrong. Here is the site that has the steps.
How to block websites | PCWorld

Here is what happens when I perform step 6. I am the administrator by the way.





Any ideas on how to make this work?

 

Windows defender false positive - forced to allow threat

Windows defender has started to identify C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe as a threat [normally reported as a Trojan Powessere.G]. I use mshta.exe to run an hta custom MsgBox - I have been hoping to keep using my current CustomMsgBox tool [batch file calling a vbs-hta file] until later this year when I hope to have had enough time to replace it with a PowerShell alternative.

Windows defender's notification lets me "allow the threat" but that seems to me to be a bigger security hole than is necessary - it will now ignore a potentially real intrusion when all I want to run is a genuine Windows component. My immediate problem is fixed but I would prefer to fix the false positive using the exclusions list.

I cleared the 'Allowed threats history' so I could use the exclusions list instead. I added C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe to the file exclusions list and I checked that it had taken properly by checking the exclusions list both in the UI & in the Registry. But the exclusion made no difference, it continued to detect and block the exe.

I have repeated the attempt several times [by clearing the allowed threats list & exclusions list beforehand] and the results are the same every time
- allowing the threat works,
- using the exclusions list has no effect.

I studied the relevant tutorial but have not spotted an error in what I have been doing - Add or Remove Windows Defender Exclusions

Does anybody with experience of using the exclusions list to counter false positives have any suggestions for me?

Denis

 

How to Block Websites

Sorry everyone but I have done everything suggested and it still does not block the website.