| Re: Secure Connection Posted by grahame at 12:38, 18th June 2025 |     |
I've been getting frequent bleats (last one on Sunday) from Bitdefender saying:
I assumed that was a link somewhere in a forum page. But those are quite common from all sorts of sites, sometimes just a one-off until a minder gets a reminder, or sometimes persistently.
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an untrusted certificate to www.wellho.net. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since untrusted certificates are issued by unrecognized Certificate Authorities.
I assumed that was a link somewhere in a forum page. But those are quite common from all sorts of sites, sometimes just a one-off until a minder gets a reminder, or sometimes persistently.
Yes "wellho.net" is on an old / (not and probably won't be https) server. I am now using "wellho.info" for images and as I hit the images in my old threads I am updating the links.
| Re: Secure Connection Posted by stuving at 11:59, 18th June 2025 | |
Further analysis suggests certificate issues with changes made elsewhere ... I think I have fixed them for the Coffee Shop but you may still get some offputting reports - if so after about 8 a.m. please let me know. My first "cure" test made in worse (more frightening) rather than better and for an hour or so that may have been cached!
I've been getting frequent bleats (last one on Sunday) from Bitdefender saying:
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an untrusted certificate to www.wellho.net. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since untrusted certificates are issued by unrecognized Certificate Authorities.
I assumed that was a link somewhere in a forum page. But those are quite common from all sorts of sites, sometimes just a one-off until a minder gets a reminder, or sometimes persistently.
| Re: Secure Connection Posted by grahame at 06:45, 18th June 2025 | |
Further analysis suggests certificate issues with changes made elsewhere ... I think I have fixed them for the Coffee Shop but you may still get some offputting reports - if so after about 8 a.m. please let me know. My first "cure" test made in worse (more frightening) rather than better and for an hour or so that may have been cached!
| Re: Secure Connection Posted by grahame at 05:32, 18th June 2025 | |
I've been getting this message a few times recently when I go to my saved bookmark https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=unread
Anything to be worried about? If I simply refresh the page it loads but sometimes shows no unread topics even though its been 24 hours or more since I last visited the site.
Anything to be worried about? If I simply refresh the page it loads but sometimes shows no unread topics even though its been 24 hours or more since I last visited the site.
I take all reports of security issues very seriously. Looking further into this right now away.
My initial educated guess, based on the evidence you have provided, was that there is possibly a link somewhere that I missed in updating last December and / or Chrome has updated and / or one or more certificates have expired. Analysis suggests the latter two; our certificates have limited life and some have expired. I have just renewed a couple of the key ones - see if that works for the message (it will probably not fix the unread topics not being properly reported)
I am not worried, but I am very interested. Whilst we look to make all transactions though https these days, it's still less than 6 months we've being doing so and - you may recall - the main reason we did so was as a re-assurance; the Coffee Shop does not collect payments or personal data which needed that extra layer. Still worth having the layer but no panic needed.
I will be very interested in feedback from other members to help me analyse and gain more evidence - either a pattern of problems or a deathening silence which would suggest it's cured or a very specific issue.
| Secure Connection Posted by Surrey 455 at 23:32, 17th June 2025 | |
I've been getting this message a few times recently when I go to my saved bookmark https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=unread
Anything to be worried about? If I simply refresh the page it loads but sometimes shows no unread topics even though its been 24 hours or more since I last visited the site.
