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I was online and emailing back and forth with a friend, browsing online and all of a sudden a box supposedly from Norton popped open and said we have seen a suspicous amount of outgoing activity and your computer might be infected. The box offered to run Power Eraser. I almost said yes but then canceled it. Should I have accepted.

Is this legit and what should I do? I've behaved as I have described many  times online and this never happened before. Is Norton just more vigilant now or what's the story?

Could it have been a scam?

Please advise. My laptop seems very clean and I have no problems. 

Thanks

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Hi

 

Welcome to Norton Community,

 

Steps to Disable and Turn Off Do You Want To View Only the Webpage Content that Was Delivered Securely Security Warning

 

1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Click on Tools -> Internet Options.
3. Go to Security tab.
4. Select Internet in the zone

5. Click on Custom level… button under “Security level for this zone” section.
6. Under “Miscellaneous” branch, for Display mixed content parameter, select the radio button of Enabled.
If you Select “Disabled” to always stop loading on unsecured components in secure web page.

7. Click OK when done, and click Yes when prompted are you sure you want to change the settings for this zone.

 

 

Please reply back if the issue is fixed

 

Ramiah

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THANK YOU NOW I can begin to work on my next problem. I’ll get back with you.

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You are always welcome :)

 

Ramiah

 

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BRADENTONBILL wrote:
I know for a fact that this site is safe as I can access it from another computer. How can I fix this problem?

This warning is not about a website's safety, per se, but is intended to alert you that only portions of the page are using a secure connection (https:) and that some parts of the page are not encrypted.  This is important if you are going to enter sensitive information into any forms on the page, because you need to make sure that those fields are secure when you submit your entries.  The alert is not blocking access to the page, but is instead asking you if you want to prevent the non-secured parts of the page from loading in order to prevent the possibility of inputting and transmitting sensitive data, such as a login password, in the clear.  What you are describing as a problem is actually a protection.

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i thought that it was fixed but it is not fixed. the SECURITY WARNING does not pop up, but the problem is the same.

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i followed these instructions and the security warning did not pop up any more, but I still encountered the same problem. Welcome to Norton Community, Steps to Disable and Turn Off Do You Want To View Only the Webpage Content that Was Delivered Securely Security Warning 1. Launch Internet Explorer. 2. Click on Tools -> Internet Options. 3. Go to Security tab. 4. Select Internet in the zone 5. Click on Custom level… button under “Security level for this zone” section. 6. Under “Miscellaneous” branch, for Display mixed content parameter, select the radio button of Enabled. If you Select “Disabled” to always stop loading on unsecured components in secure web page. 7. Click OK when done, and click Yes when prompted are you sure you want to change the settings for this zone. Please reply back if the issue is fixed NORTON: NOTE THAT THIS ISSUE IS NOT FIXED. Please read the following that I’ve been working with SPOT ADVENTURES web site Yes, I use the internet explorer. See the page below, I only can get the part that says: EDIT ADVENTURE MAPYOUR ROUTE ADD DETAILS ADD MEDIA. The problem is with this computer, it is my primary computer that I have creating ADVENTURES for years. My little lap top still can create and edit adventures. Some how this one no longer can edit or create adventures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: customerservice@findmespot.com [mailto:customerservice@findmespot.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:32 PM To: Bill Meyer Subject: Agentid-5573–1.50095054-- SPOT Adventures [pfCase:66538, pfTicket:5077433] Dear Bill, Thank you for contacting SPOT, the world’s first GPS satellite messenger. Thank you for sharing. We were able to edit your adventue Barbados and Guadeloupe….see below. We didn’t make any changes, we just clicked on Edit. Can you please share what web browser you are using? We would advise to use Internet Explorer.

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BRADENTONBILL wrote:
I only can get the part that says: EDIT ADVENTURE MAPYOUR ROUTE ADD DETAILS ADD MEDIA.

We're going to need a little bit more to go on than that.  How do you get there, and what happens next?  Are you only getting a partial page load?  If so, it may be that you have selected to only load secure content as discussed earlier (make sure you selected "enable" for the mixed content setting suggested by Ramiah).