Website not secure!

[Doodle]

Hi, I have just posted a message on the forum but noticed on my address line after signing in 'website not secure' - yikes I hope it is. Mrs KG

[NickP]

I wouldn't think that there are any safe or 100% secure websites.

[suein56]

NickP wrote :

I wouldn't think that there are any safe or 100% secure websites

My antivirus certainly mistrusts many websites I visit .. especially my French Bank site, which they keep modifying to no seeming improvement.

[pomme]

It is because the web site is using http:// rather than ther more secure https://

Various web browsers now give a warning if you are accessing an http:// web site; Google Chrome will be give an even more explicit warning from July 2018.

https:// means the data being sent is encrypted so it is more-or-less impossible for someone to access the data during transmission through the network.

So https:// should already be being used by banking, online purchasing, etc or just sites that expect a user name and password.

There is more information here https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/how-https-website-security-is-make-the-internet-safer-f-1794166995

[suein56]

pomme wrote : It is because the web site is using http:// rather than ther more secure https://

Not in this case the site is definitely Https ..I think rather it might be that, with the many changes my Bank keep making to their site, their certificates are not always up to date and my AV reacts with a warning.

[pomme]

If you click on the icon next to the https URL the browser will probably tell you what the problem is.