Virgin Media Website not secure?

icicat

Hello, I'm trying to sign up for virgin Broadband though when about to put all my card details in I realize there is an i in a circle symbol where there should be a green padlock next to the http address. This is stating 'your connection to this site is not secure'.

Does anyone else get this when they log on to: http://www.virginmedia.com/

Is this risking my credit card details? cheers

kwikbreaks

The VM website has always been a dogs breakfast of bad design, bad links, etc.

Entering CC card details into an http page rather than https (with the padlock) is a risk. Not that big a risk if done from home but certainly riskyer on free wifi where anybody could in theory at least be packet sniffing.

Same goes for logins - the login to this forum is not secured - a very good reason not to use the same password on multiple sites quite apart from hacking risks.

Google will start penalising insecure sites in its rankings soon but I doubt that will topple the official VM site from first place when you search for virgin media.

bsod

add an s to the end of http

icicat

I downloaded the Brave browser and it forced the https, possibly blocking an unsafe site linked to the page.

kwikbreaks

The fact it worked as https proves that it was a shoddy link - for https to work the server needs to have a certificate and be able to support https. Such shoddy work is typical of VM as I already said.