Online Threat Prevention

[Bob]

I keep getting numerous warnings from Bit Defender when accessing this site saying the following

Online Threat Prevention



chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an untrusted certificate to www.iconj.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since untrusted certificates are issued by unrecognized Certificate Authorities.

Can the admins look into which certificates need updating, obviously something to do with the icons on pages

[VapingBad]

Maybe you need to block ad tracking, this is what Chrome shows for this page for me

That is where I would expect bad certs to show up, it could be one form an embedded add or other embedded content such as the icons you mentioned or maybe one in the chain has just gone out of date.

[Bob]

Apr 29, 2020 22:00:04 GMT VapingBad said:

Maybe you need to block ad tracking, this is what Chrome shows for this page for me

That is where I would expect bad certs to show up, it could be one form an embedded add or other embedded content such as the icons you mentioned or maybe one in the chain has just gone out of date.

I only have the padlock on the address bar, not the info one that you have, really thinking of giving up on this site it is just becoming unusable for me with all the bit defender pop ups

[Postmodern Smoking]

Try clicking on the padlock and settings and block any options that might be agrevating Bit Defender.

[Bob]

May 3, 2020 21:49:10 GMT Postmodern Smoking said:

Try clicking on the padlock and settings and block any options that might be agrevating Bit Defender.

Tried that nothing seems to work, also tried adding it to Adblock Plus, zilch effect

[bioxx]

It’s probably just a certificate, I get warnings too. Nothing to worry about. They tightened the rules a little while ago and everybody (AVs)now needs to show of that they’re on the ball. You can manually add it as ‘valid’, just need to figure out which one it is. Also, try to disable third party cookies and trackers.

[charliehorse]

Weird - I dont get any bit defender warnings - I dont have the shield thingy either - just the padlock - never had a pop up warning

[snow]

Hopefully I have fixed it for you Bob - the only graphic the forum used which was linked to iconj.com was the forum favicon image which wasn't actually displaying properly anyway, so for now I have reverted it to the proboard default and hopefully that should solve your problem. You may need to clear your browser cache to make sure the issue is solved.

[Bob]

May 4, 2020 8:12:26 GMT bioxx said:

It’s probably just a certificate, I get warnings too. Nothing to worry about. They tightened the rules a little while ago and everybody (AVs)now needs to show of that they’re on the ball. You can manually add it as ‘valid’, just need to figure out which one it is. Also, try to disable third party cookies and trackers.

Thanks, it was still happening even after snow advice cleared cache, I always have had third party rubbish disabled, I have now added it as an exception but I don't normally like doing that unless it is for a whole site that I trust.

[Bob]

May 5, 2020 21:42:06 GMT charliehorse said:

Weird - I dont get any bit defender warnings - I dont have the shield thingy either - just the padlock - never had a pop up warning

Think it depends on what version you have, mine is the full "Internet Security" version, if you only have the AV version you won't get it.

[Bob]

May 5, 2020 23:30:40 GMT snow said:

Hopefully I have fixed it for you Bob - the only graphic the forum used which was linked to iconj.com was the forum favicon image which wasn't actually displaying properly anyway, so for now I have reverted it to the proboard default and hopefully that should solve your problem. You may need to clear your browser cache to make sure the issue is solved.

No it wasn't fixed for me, even after clearing the cache and cookies for all proboard stuff, so added it as an exception, it then activated again for a banner one so added that to exceptions as well, now all okay, it could be that both the iconj.com and the banner one both have expired certificates which have never been re-certified, thanks for trying anyway

[VapingBad]

May 5, 2020 23:30:40 GMT snow said:

Hopefully I have fixed it for you Bob - the only graphic the forum used which was linked to iconj.com was the forum favicon image which wasn't actually displaying properly anyway, so for now I have reverted it to the proboard default and hopefully that should solve your problem. You may need to clear your browser cache to make sure the issue is solved.

Brower dev tools, [F12] key, and search for iconj.com

ETA it's in there twice side by side so maybe some add-in or extension is injecting it as most humans would spot that.  You can also see it with ViewSource at the bottom of the header node.