MSE showing as dangerous in Google Chrome

Former_MSE_Andrea

Thanks Mothballswallet!

Is anyone else getting this?

Frogletina

I'm still getting the i symbol too

Jabba_flabba

MothballsWallet wrote: »

I'm still getting the "i" symbol in the address bar and I don't want to turn the setting off.

1/ You'll see the (i) Not secure message to the left of the URL bar in Chrome just so long as this website is served unencrypted. There's nothing you can do about this. It's all part of Google's attempt to draw attention to sites that continue to serve plain http, and to encourage adoption of SSL.

2/ Leaving Chrome's Safe Browsing setting enabled is the right thing to do, even if disabling it appears to fix the big red warning page that Anne_Marie was seeing. Disabling it is disabling a browser security feature, and may make your browser vulnerable to deception attempts.

Jabba_flabba

Frogletina wrote: »

I had this issue and the setting was set at on. I amended the setting to off and was then able to get onto this site

That sounds as expected.

I'd advise turning the setting back on and seeing if you can access this site now without hitting the big red warning page (things may have changed since you originally tried it). Ideally you want to leave this setting on.

I can reach http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com just fine with the setting turned on.

Jabba_flabba

A bit of digging shows that this site is currently okay:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=forums.moneysavingexpert.com

...meaning, right now, safe browsing enabled Chrome users should be able to reach this site (in theory!)

Frogletina

Jabba_flabba wrote: »

That sounds as expected.

I'd advise turning the setting back on and seeing if you can access this site now without hitting the big red warning page (things may have changed since you originally tried it). Ideally you want to leave this setting on.

I can reach http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com just fine with the setting turned on.

Hi Jabba

I have turned it back on and I'm not getting the warning now

thanks for your advice

frogletina

MothballsWallet

Jabba_flabba wrote: »

1/ You'll see the (i) Not secure message to the left of the URL bar in Chrome just so long as this website is served unencrypted. There's nothing you can do about this. It's all part of Google's attempt to draw attention to sites that continue to serve plain http, and to encourage adoption of SSL.

2/ Leaving Chrome's Safe Browsing setting enabled is the right thing to do, even if disabling it appears to fix the big red warning page that Anne_Marie was seeing. Disabling it is disabling a browser security feature, and may make your browser vulnerable to deception attempts.

Thank you - we shouldn't have to turn a browser security feature off to access a web page because the people running it haven't sorted out the SSL adoption.

Jabba_flabba

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Thank you - we shouldn't have to turn a browser security feature off to access a web page because the people running it haven't sorted out the SSL adoption.

You're welcome, though I believe you're conflating two issues here:

The Safe Browsing feature of Chrome is about preventing you from reaching sites that may have been hijacked by malware, code injection, that sort of thing.

The lack SSL is about the privacy that you have - or in this case don't have - when you connect from your web browser to this site. Think of it like someone being able to listen in on your phone conversation.

colinw

The only dangerous thing on this site is my music taste :cool: