'untrusted site' warning in mozilla?

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  amsterdamassassin · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 8:20 pm

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  Why do people get a warning ‘untrusted site’ when they want to click on my blog?

  I got an email from a reader of my novels, which says:

  “BTW, when I tried to look at your blog, Mozilla gave me an “untrusted site” warning. Is it safe?”

  I told her it was a wordpress blog, and presumably safe, but I wonder where this comes from?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 8:23 pm

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  When one receives such a warning there is a link in it one can click that provides specific information as to why the warning is appearing. Then one can address that issue. In many cases but not all cases it’s an issue of linking to an image on a dodgy site.

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  amsterdamassassin · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:05 pm

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  I have a book blog, and I do post links in my posts, but none of them are to dodgy sites, but retailers like Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Kobo.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:06 pm

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  We can’t help your here with any malware message we cannot read.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:07 pm

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  This may help http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-untrusted-error-message

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  amsterdamassassin · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:23 pm

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  Thanks, I checked your link, but that’s more on how to proceed when you get a warning. I can’t check the security certificates… I asked the person who told me about the warning to send me a screenshot, so I can see if there’s a malware message or code, but for now I don’t have more than her message quoted in the first post…

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:24 pm

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  As I said above this isn’t anything we can help with as we don’t have the message with the active link in it and a screenshot will not provide that active link.

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  amsterdamassassin · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:31 pm

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  So, how can I solve this? I don’t want my blog to be labeled ‘untrusted’, but I’m not the one receiving the warning, I’m just the blogger who receives a message that others get these warnings… Is there a way to check what happens, or to reproduce the warning? I have Mozilla Firefox on my Macbook, but even if I log out of wordpress and clear my cache, it won’t reproduce this ‘error’.

  Can I ask you to go to my weebly website and click the link to Amsterdam Assassin Series on the home page and see if you get the same error? The link to my website is Tao of Violence website and the link is in the heading ‘Follow on WordPress’

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:37 pm

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  Without a link name or file name not much to go on here

  Ask them what anti-virus they are using – sometimes an anti-virus has a false positive for something

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:39 pm

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  I clicked the link on the weebly blog arrived at the wordpress.com blog and did not get the warning.

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  amsterdamassassin · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:43 pm

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  Thanks. My wife also tried it in Chrome on her PC, but also no warning. So it might be a bug in Firefox, or a security setting gone awry, or some anti-virus program with a bug up its behind…

  Thanks for all your help. I’ll see if I can get more information, but the person who warned me hasn’t responded yet, so I’m not holding my breath. Still, it bugs me that people might not want to visit my blog because of a bogus warning…

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 9:45 pm

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  I’m using Firefox 19 and not experiencing this.

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  amsterdamassassin · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 10:11 pm

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  Well, that’s good to know. It must probably be incidental. Thanks for your help, Timethief.