https/http on www.theanswerbank.com

[methyl]

This site keeps trying to connect to a secure site. Every time you change page.

No doubt something to do with adverts. Even disabling Adobe Flash Player does not stop this one.
There is an art to displaying external content where you offer the link but DO NOT force the user's browser to connect to the external site.

Please fix this latest problem with what is otherwise a very good site.

[DTCwordfan]

could you put this in non tecchie speak please, your timing being when two-thirds of us have Mamya's tailcocks aboard?

[askyourgran]

lol DTc, my thoughts exactly.

[Mick-Talbot]

.com ?

[AB Editor]

Afternoon,

It's not a problem we've been able to reproduce or been reported by others.

As others have pointed out, it's .co.uk, not .com

[methyl]

The problem is still present. Big Oops about the URL.

[Mick-Talbot]

answerbank.com has nothing to do with this site.

[methyl]

@Mick-Talbot and others, the .com is a blatently obvous typo which only a pedant would flag.

Anyway, the problem has stopped for the moment. It was no doubt caused by one or more of the round-robin of adertisers on this site. There is an art to website design whereby you offer a link (perhaps with a tempting object) but do not automatically covertly connect to that link.

[Buenchico]

That sounds like a malware infection.

Download, install and run the free version of Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebyt...ts/malwarebytes_free/

Chris

[methyl]

@Buenchico
Thanks for the thought, but definitely not malware/adware/whatever.

You will only notice this if you have never clicked "do not ask me again" on the IE secure/insecure site-switch message box. Unfortunately Microsoft do not display the URL in the message box and the presence of the message box itself prevents you capturing the URL from the task bar. Once you acknowledge the message box the URL is lost. Each URL itself is too long for the task bar message window., so you can't even retype it. Frustrating.