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Bitdefender warning

When I log on to this site and try to read any article or forum post, I get a warning message from Bitdefender which says:"Suspicious page blocked for your protection.Your connection to this web page is not safe due to an unmatching security certificate.This means that the certificate was issued for a different web address than the one it is being used for, and you run the risk of exposing your data by accessing this page."Does anyone else get such a warning?

Jim Currie ● 52d15 Comments

going to the Brentford site, Firefox tells me it is not secure and I should not visit it (and no Brentford jokes please!). This has been forever as well and I just assume that the site owner has not updated anything. But I suppose the Brentford site is vulnerable and could be loaded with malware...

Iris Hill ● 38d

Julian, I thought I had posted a thanks to you for your helpful reply but it seems to have disappeared (nothing to do with Bitdefender !!). So, thanks.

Jim Currie ● 38d

Agree Roger, so many seem to lack a sense of humour these days, get thehump over anything and everything, take anything said the wrong way and enjoy being miserable.  My partner thinks it's due to Covid and said he has noticed a change in the people he knows since then.

Janice Evans ● 50d

It's nice to have a laugh, Janice.

Roger Talbot ● 50d

This gives www.chicswickw4.com a clean bill of health. ?

Audrey Walton ● 50d

Roger, that's exactly sort of remark my partner would make 😉

Janice Evans ● 51d

I also have to "clock in".Tony, your explanation for this so called hiccup is very helpful, but for me, too technical to comprendo.

Denis I. Fox ● 51d

Sorry you have problems accessing the site.I don't have Bitdefender, but checking with the inbuilt protection in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, they indicate the the site is using a valid certificate issues to www.chiswickw4.com . On the Bitdefinder site is says if you get this message , to check the domain using this site: https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=www.chiswickw4.com .This gives www.chicswickw4.com a clean bill of health.So at the moment I do not know why Bitdefinder is reporting this message. In the page https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/2471/ it says you can add the site to Bitdefender exceptions, quote:"Alternatively, if you wish to access a website with a problematic SSL certificate at your own risk, you can add an exception for that address in Bitdefender. For detailed instructions, read – Whitelist a safe website on Windows" 

Tony Steele ● 51d

Are you absolutely sure about  that, Janice?

Roger Talbot ● 51d

Thanks, it's nice to know I'm not causing it.

Janice Evans ● 51d

I've had the same problem for the past few weeks, Janice. I haven't changed anything on my computer, so don't know why it's happened. A minor irritation, but nevertheless, an irritation.

Colin Jordan ● 51d

I don't have Bitdefender.

Janice Evans ● 52d

Might be because I swap from sim to wi-fi thinking about it.

Janice Evans ● 52d

Recently have had to sign in every time I open the Forum.

Janice Evans ● 52d

Ignore it jim,mark it as safeIts been like that for ever. Its the way the security certificte is installed on the server

Julian Pavey ● 52d