Non secure website problem (win7/chrome)

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colin20

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Hi guys, recently my computer (win7 with chrome browser) has been showing up non-secure websites when before they were all secure websites. This means a 'your connection is not private' page comes up , see photo below. This means two things, I can press the advanced button and a new button is available to go to the website unsecure. That is fine as I can get into the website, but other websites when I press advanced button, no button comes up to go to unsecure website, so I cannot get into the website at all, see photo below with twitch.TV website, I cannot get in to it at all.
Every week some secure websites I have been on for years, are now becoming insecure.

Is there a way of bypassing this insecure stuff, so I can get on all the websites I want? Thanks Colin.

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colin20 said:
Hi guys, recently my computer (win7 with chrome browser) has been showing up non-secure websites when before they were all secure websites. This means a 'your connection is not private' page comes up , see photo below. This means two things, I can press the advanced button and a new button is available to go to the website unsecure. That is fine as I can get into the website, but other websites when I press advanced button, no button comes up to go to unsecure website, so I cannot get into the website at all, see photo below with twitch.TV website, I cannot get in to it at all.
Every week some secure websites I have been on for years, are now becoming insecure.

Is there a way of bypassing this insecure stuff, so I can get on all the websites I want? Thanks Colin.

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You've almost certainly got a virus. A clean windows install is rge best way forward.
 
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Martinr36 said:
And when you do that upgrade to W10
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Oh God, well that explains it.

Windows 7 is completely out of support, which means you're not getting any security updates, and haven't been since January 2020.

You undoubtedly have a very very nasty infection and have done for some time.

You NEED to upgrade to windows 10, Windows 7 can't be used on the internet at all, no virus software can protect it because the operating system itself is fully unprotected.
 
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colin20

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Thanks for your quick replies, it looks as though I will have to splash out on a win10 machine. Just before I do, can you tell me when I proceed to advance button, why sometimes like the twitch.TV website (above photo), nothing comes up for me to proceed there, yet this unsecure website below (see photo) has a link to the website (unsafe), so I can get to the website. Why does this link not come up to proceed to all unsafe websites? I just do not understand this.
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You can upgrade your present machine to W10 for free as described here

Death of Windows 7, still able to update to Windows 10 / 11 for free (still relevant)

Hi all I hope we're all aware by now, but Windows 7 goes "End Of Life" on 14th January 2020. After this time, it will no longer recieve security updates. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-windows-7-support There will be some of you thinking that so long as you have...
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colin20 said:
Thanks for your quick replies, it looks as though I will have to splash out on a win10 machine. Just before I do, can you tell me when I proceed to advance button, why sometimes like the twitch.TV website (above photo), nothing comes up for me to proceed there, yet this unsecure website below (see photo) has a link to the website (unsafe), so I can get to the website. Why does this link not come up for all unsafe websites? I just do not understand this.
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Without going too into details, chrome is keeping you safe. The site you're being directed to is not the site you're intending to go to, as such, it has no valid certificate.

If you continued you'd likely be entering your details into some harvesting site.

But there's very likely keyloggers, DNS reroutes and even proxies on the pc by now so all your traffic will have been harvested anyway.
 
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colin20

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Thanks I never keep or send any personal details or on-line bank stuff on this computer anyway. So not too worried about that. Had this win7 computer for many years, so its time to get a newer machine, and start fresh.
 
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ubuysa

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SpyderTracks said:
Without going too into details, chrome is keeping you safe. The site you're being directed to is not the site you're intending to go to, as such, it has no valid certificate.
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If Windows 7 is not receiving updates, which it's not, then it's not getting the normal root certificate updates either. That's most likely why this is happening - and it's only going to get worse.
 
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TonyCarter

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Before you splash out on what could be an expensive new PC just to get Windows 10 (PC components are very expensive at the moment), just try a clean install of W10 on your current machine.

Even if the current PC is really old and slow, it probably won't be any slower on W10 than it is on W7.
 
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Martinr36 said:
You can upgrade your present machine to W10 for free as described here

Death of Windows 7, still able to update to Windows 10 / 11 for free (still relevant)

Hi all I hope we're all aware by now, but Windows 7 goes "End Of Life" on 14th January 2020. After this time, it will no longer recieve security updates. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-windows-7-support There will be some of you thinking that so long as you have...
www.pcspecialist.co.uk www.pcspecialist.co.uk
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TonyCarter said:
Before you splash out on what could be an expensive new PC just to get Windows 10 (PC components are very expensive at the moment), just try a clean install of W10 on your current machine.

Even if the current PC is really old and slow, it probably won't be any slower on W10 than it is on W7.
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I suggested that here
 
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