UtilForge.org publishes every correction to its free checks on this page, with the date, so that anyone can see what was wrong, what changed and what each check still cannot do. A check that tells you an address or an advert looks fine carries a duty to be right, and a check that was wrong owes you an account of it.
26 October 2026: four checks tested, and fixed
On 26 October 2026 four checks were tested by running each page's own code on copies taken from the live site at 09:49 South African time. They were Is this the official government site?, Who sent this email?, Advert check and Hide Names from AI. The test ran 162 cases, 56 of them with a different result from the one intended, and produced 35 findings. No page broke, and the pages made no requests to any other site. Every finding was addressed in the release that followed the test, and two are only partly fixed, as the section after the four checks explains. The most serious findings, and the changes, are these.
Who sent this email?
The check showed its green result, "No warning signs found in the sender line", for some sender lines that deserved a warning: a company name sent from a free personal account, a company name written with look-alike letters, a company the check did not know, a second sender line further down a forwarded message, and a reply address that differed from the sender. It also gave a warning to an ordinary grocer because its name contained the word "apple".
What changed: the green result now appears only when the address belongs to the company the email names. Free personal accounts are checked first. Look-alike letters, including letters from other alphabets, are read as the letters they imitate. Every sender line and every reply address in a message is read, including in a forwarded message. When the company is not one the check knows, the result says so in plain words and does not show green.
Advert check
The check passed an advert for a tax refund that charged a fee, and a fake bank sign-in advert. Its phone warning was switched off by an earlier "never" in the sentence, missed some wordings such as "Speak to an agent on", and warned about an honest bookshop's opening-hours number.
What changed: the check now warns about adverts that copy a government service and charge a fee, with a link to the official site check, and about requests to sign in. The phone warning is no longer cancelled by earlier words, reads more wordings and numbers split over lines, ignores dates, and uses a gentler heading when a number appears with no support or refund words beside it.
Is this the official government site?
The check gave a stop sign to real government addresses, among them those of Wales, Scotland, Quebec, Poland, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Malawi and the Netherlands, and it missed the trick of placing a trusted name before an @ sign when the address had no https:// in front.
What changed: those government endings are recognised. For an ending the check does not know, it now says that it does not know the ending and asks you to find the government's own site yourself. It reads the @ sign trick with or without https://, and addresses made of numbers.
Hide Names from AI
The check missed names that are also ordinary words (May, June, Hope) or typed in small letters, missed some bank branch codes typed in small letters, and gave two people in a list the same label.
What changed: those cases are covered, and each person in a list now gets a separate label.
Partly fixed
The government-service fee note in Is this the official government site? now appears beside any web address, and does not yet appear for the words "Sponsored" or "Ad" with no address. Of the German state addresses, those published by the German government's own portal are recognised, and the addresses of Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and Brandenburg are not yet listed because their ownership needs checking.
What these checks still cannot do
Each check reads words and addresses only. None can see a picture, confirm that a shop is real or prove that a message is genuine. A government ending shows that an address belongs to a government body, and the address in front of you still needs reading letter by letter. The list of government endings is not complete: where it does not know an ending, it says so.
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