Is edgesuite.net Safe?

I am going to allow it. 1 infection in over 80,000 visits is not a large percentage to be worried about and that may be the site itself rather than edgesuite, It is not clear that edgesuite actually caused the infection. McAfee didn't find a problem with it and it is affiliated with Akamai which is WOT approved as excellent.

As commented above over last 3 years, site continues to to be a threat. From Google: " The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-09-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on ***** Malicious software includes 1 trojan(s). Over the past 90 days, edgesuite.net appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s)... ...Has this site hosted malware? Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 1 domain(s)... ".

Per Google Safe Browsing - Diagnostic page for edgesuite.net What is the current listing status for edgesuite.net? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 4218 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-08-18, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on ***** Malicious software includes 2 trojan(s). Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including ***** This site was hosted on 57 network(s) including AS209 (QWEST), AS701 (UUNET), AS1299 (TELIANET). Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, edgesuite.net appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including ***** Has this site hosted malware? Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 1 domain(s), including *****

edgesuite.net is registered with TUCOWS in Canada It only appears in email, often unsolicited, in conjunction with a prefix or subdomain. It is used to promote large enterprises such as Dell and Macys It is possibly the work of a rogue unauthorized spammer, because it is unlikely that these companies would be spamming themselves. Sample images http://epidm.edgesuite.net/DELL/US_SMB/Adhoc/FY12Q2WK12/00284356/dell.gif http://epidm.edgesuite.net/DELL/US_SMB/Adhoc/FY12Q2WK12/00284356/69597_us_sb_banner1.jpg http://epidm.edgesuite.net/Macys/adhoc/MCOM/logo.gif http://epidm.edgesuite.net/Macys/adhoc/MCOM/0113_mreg_inserta_SUB2.jpg

Tracks user's browsing / browsing habits / profiling re: ***** DNS: http://www.robtex.com/dns/edgesuite.net.html

What is ESI and edgesuite.net? According to Akamai Technologies, Inc., owner of <edgesuite.net>, the site houses The "EdgeSuite Edge Side Includes (ESI)." The ESI service provides for dynamically generating HTML pages at the edge of the Internet, near the end user. The ESI language is an XML-based markup language that provides the tools to assemble the content dynamically on the Akamai network.

It's a CDN. Not a bad site at all according to my search. Apparently a CDN is a site that holds cached copies of webpages so that the CDN can alleviate some of the stress from the main page. In other words if I'm looking at an article and that article in it's entirety is on the sites CDN (like edgesuite) then the CDN may give me a copy from it's servers rather than the main site thus saving the main sites bandwidth for things like new content and secure connections.

"...on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-07-27, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on ***** ... "Malicious software includes 32 scripting exploit(s)." - Excerpted from Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for edgesuite.net (q.v.) BTW, isn't Alexa just a counting site? In view of direct statements above, a "Most visited" listing by Alexa does not seem to me to justify tagging with "Good site" on WOT. P. S. - - July 27 was the last time Google tested edgesuite. It was not very long ago.