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Clicked the geocities.com link and got a "High Risk Website Blocked - Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website" notification from Sophos.

False flag, or malicious?

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I think it's to do with the way the Wayback machine API is used and the site altering the code of the webpage (removing incompatible JS and stitching together links).

If you're on a coorporate network or have some kind of security firewall setup this could be flagged as a tampered URL.

I had the same alert.

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