My Computer Says AW Forums Are Not Secure

Maggiee,

What web protection/malware/Anti-virus programs are you running? Is this a computer at home, or on a business or college network?
It is true, the AW forums are not completely secured, and depending on what settings are on the host computer or network-that can affect if you will be able to get to the site at all without some fiddling.

For myself, I see that the forums do not force encryption of every element presented: so the adverts to other sites, many of the banners that people use are not passed with the AW certificate. These are all being presented without security.

I also know at work, the AW site itself was re-categorized by our proxy server and blocked for a few days a couple months ago. Once someone fixed that.. getting to it from work was good again.

See this post: https://absolutewrite.com/forums/sh...re-Warning&p=10503971&viewfull=1#post10503971

Follow the steps in order and, if you're using a bookmark to access AW, remove it and create another one once you're in.

Please let us know how this works out for you.

maggiee, I see you wrote this is happening on five browsers. Have you gone into your settings and set AW up as an exception in the security section (it's a bit different for each browser).

ETA: Just want to add that it's safe to set AW as an exception since the site does not collect personal data nor do we process financial transactions here.

There are images loading in member's sigs and profiles that are not served from https://; they are on sites AW does not control.

Other than continuing to ask members to make sure they update their sigs, which I do, there's nothing I can do about that.

But the presence of http:// vs https:// in links or images will cause sensitive security settings to flag a site.

You can use SSLLabs to test the level of security for any site: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest

This one seems to have a pretty good level of security.