[vicsireland] Re: security warning
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:57:08 +0100
Hi Claude,
yes it sure is confusing. You're told, 'this page contains both secured
and nonsecured elements". If you are thinking to say yes, , you're told
you 'could compromise the security of the whole page" or a similar
phrase. This usually happens when using Internet Explorer. Somewhere
there is an implication that with these nonsecured elements included, a
third party may be able to see what you're doing, an anxiety if there
are potential transactions involved. One could turn off these warnings,
but then, what else would you miss by doing that? (In this context, I'm
for now referring to IE8 on Windows XP; though the warning came up also
in prior versions of internet Explorer.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude Saulnier" <claude.saulnier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 4:58 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: security warning
Hi Susan
I could be wrong, but I have seen this in the following context:
- The issue usually arises when a web page is delivered over SSL/https
while some elements that are embedded on the page (images, scripts) are
delivered through http. In short, the html is transmitted securely over
SSL while elements that make the page are not.
- This is mainly a feature, if you can call it like that, that Internet
Explorer introduced a while back. It is meant to improve security, but
in my opinion, it creates a lot of confusion.
To overcome the problem, what we have done with the websites we build,
is that we force all content to be delivered through https if the page
is called from https.
Kind regards
Claude
www.wandsoft.com
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Curry
Sent: 01 July 2013 14:28
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] security warning
hi folks,
this last couple of days I have been getting this warning coming up all
the time when I go on to the internet, not all websites though.
it says,
security warning button, yes button, no button, more info button. do you
want to view only the web page content that was delivered securely? this
web page contains content that will not be delivered using a htps
connection which could compromise the security of the entire web page.
when I tab to the yes button and hit enter nothing happens, some times
it even locks up.
why am I getting this? does any one else get this?
I have recently took off avast and now I'm using Microsoft Security
essentials.
could this have any thing to do with it? maybe i've down loaded it wrong
or some thing.
many thanks
best wishes
Susan
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