[PD-SYS] Visitor Filters - are these up to date?

@Charlotte Fabb

Those [PD-SYS] Proofpoint filters are system-managed by Salesforce, so the 1 April 2019 date is simply when they were provisioned to your account when you got Pardot — a static date is normal for system filters and doesn't mean they've gone stale or that you need to maintain them. The key point though: visitor filters only suppress website Visitor activity (page views recorded by your tracking code), not email link clicks — so they were never going to stop the bot clicks you're seeing against prospects. Those clicks come from email security gateways (Proofpoint URL Defense, Mimecast, Microsoft Safe Links) and university spam-protection tools that pre-scan every link before delivery; it's an industry-wide email issue that no visitor filter removes. Practical way to handle it: don't treat a single email click as a qualifying, scoring, or sales-alert trigger on its own — scanner clicks have tells (they fire within seconds of the send and usually hit every link in the email), so lean on those signals and require corroborating engagement (a form submission, or repeat visits across separate sessions) before you act on a click. If you use clicks in Engagement Studio or automation/completion actions, add a short time delay or a 'clicked 2+ distinct links' style guard so scanner traffic doesn't push prospects down the funnel. if this helps, please mark it as the Best Answer so it helps the next person — thanks 🙂