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Im finding that some of the forums I use , are now showing as insecure (the crossed out padlock) . MOneysavingexpert and Hotmail for starters. Ive tried putting Https:// in front, but that doesnt work . Can someone please try Moneysavingexpert to see if it shows a yellow padlock for them -(test the register and log on pages) , and if it does, any suggestions as to why Im getting these insecure forums please?

All ok on google chrome what browser you using ? Are you using internet explorer ?

Thank you for looking karlb .No Im using Firefox anyone else using Firefox finding moneysavingexpert unsafe site?

I am on Firefox and all Money saving Expert has the padlock.

I get similar messages for sites that were secure previously like ebay, bbc, bank, facebook I do use IE. Seems to be ok now. Think it may be more to do with security settings not being remembered or ISP ...in my case talk talk

Thanks Salmon, its definitely my pc then . Fish, is that me not remembering to set something , or my pc not picking something up it should ?Anyone know whats wrong?

Current versions of firefox are 56.02, just check its updating, the security certificates come with the updates and do run out.

No, thats the version Ive got thanks . Anything else it could be?

Have just seen now that wiki via Firefox is showing unsafe too! It wasnt when I wrote my first post and Hotmail is now showing safe! A further check on Chrome and wiki also showing unsafe via that too! Havent a clue whats going on!

In firefox, close down every window and tab, go to "history" - "clear recent history", tick all the boxes, change "time range to clear" to "everything" then hit "clear now". exit firefox then restart it.

If that doesn't work there are two more things to try.

Yes getting the same on wiki from mixed content http requests on a https site from http://img1.jurko.net probably ads

karl , mine on wiki is even the login , I signed out and in again to test. DD thanks Ill look at doing that .Whats 'site preferences' do - Ive not ticked that one before since I didnt know.

You can set up, different settings for different sites, most people never use it, its things like cookie control and trust levels, I use it very occasionally but resetting them is generally a good thing.

It's gone for me now all secure so i think it was a poorly coded ad

That worked for Wiki DD thanks, its just gone secure , but moneysaving expert is still insecure . Weird

MSE is secure on the initial page, but insecure when I try to log in

Ok, try opening firefox in its safe-mode. Whatever you click to open firefox, hold the shift key down while you click (or double-click) it.

This disables all add-ons etc, see if the problems still happen while its in safe mode. Exit it and open firefox normally and see if it hangs in there.

BTW have you run malwarebytes, if anything unusual happens it should be the first thing to do, just in case.

Or in chrome ctrl+shift+i for developer mode and click on the security tab will show you insecure items "may have to reload page"

I finsished a trial of full MWB yesterday (I was having this trouble before that) and today they keep asking me if I want to have the updated free version and Im not sure . I presume before running it , that that will be ok to do?

After that, Im not sure about opening FF in safe mode and knocking off add ons because I wouldnt know how to reset FF which it says I would need to do.

I always switch the MWB trial off as soon as I install it and just stick to the free version. Its good to let it do the update.

Firefox safe mode doesn't do anything funny, it loads in safe mode with the shift key, the next time its run without holding the shift key it loads the same as normal, nothing special to do.

I'd forgotten about firefox reset, used it once a long time ago, considered it too much hassle to have to make all my customisations again to bother using it again.

MSE is showing insecure in FF safemode as well as ordinary .

I thought Id upgrade to the supposedly newer version of MBytes before running it , so clicked on the yes button this time they asked me (its been coming up every whipstitch and Ive been clicking it off) and I agreed to the change etc then the wizard is announced, and then this screen came up " unable to execute file in the temporary directory . Set up aborted. Error 5. Access is denied. I clicked cancel , and then another screen came up saying the installation would complete until closed and reopened . It did that, but when it reopened , no MBytes of any description remained .Just gone!

Not sure if I understood you correctly, but I used chrome to bring up MSE and then forum, then clickd on sec tab in dev mode and it just confirmed it was an insecure site, but didnt say anything about reloading or anything.

If the same is happening in Chrome as well as Firefox then its an operating system problem.

Re-install malwarebytes from https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou/

Don't click any "upgrade" buttons, big difference between upgrade and update.

This explains some of it I reckon. I emailed MSE and got this back.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=72027723#post72027723


Thanks DD , will reinstate MB tomorrow.

While secure sites are really needed in this day and age, the amount of work it sometimes creates can be a nightmare.

I've converted most of my sites relatively easily (because I wrote all the code) but there is one which uses 3rd party software I'm unsure about and another site which I haven't got a clue where to start so that is in limbo. The problem isn't so much the doing, its the testing to try and find if any features have been compromised.

Mark did very well converting WikiWirral, I was logging in pretty often to see where he had problems but he did such a good job that I learnt nothing, good for him, less good for me

Thats interesting DD, what sort of sites do you run , or do you create them for customers ?

Not really allowed to say on here, I don't do any commercial ones but I have over ten sites for different purposes.

There is one that Mark gave me permission to use in my signature which is fuller sets of pictures of my explores etc, its got over 10,000 pictures on it from 170 visits. I don't want to link it publicly yet as I don't want it to pop into google before I decide if I'm going to carry on using the 3rd party photo-gallery software or not.