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George Redmon


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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
Post  Posted 18 Jun 2021 3:29 pm    
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More nasty trash from this last major windows10 update GGGrrrrrrrr.

What is HTTP? not that i care. But it has placed something on my Laptop computer, that has completely taken it over. Runs a script type thing, and won't let me type a word. Acts sorta like a virus, but Malwarebytes says all clear?? It's running some type of Script or something...Man give me back Windows8. Is this a virus? I read how to go into tools, internet options and uncheck the boxes to disable it. But it won't disable, rendering my laptop useless.
I have NOT used this beautiful laptop, more then i've used it. Sad really.






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Wiz Feinberg


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Post  Posted 18 Jun 2021 10:28 pm    
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HTTP is how web pages are delivered to web browsers. It is a protocol, or system used to create the World Wide Web. HTTP means HyperText Transfer Protocol.

If you look at the contents of the location bar in your web browser, it usually starts with either HTTP:// or HTTPS://. The first is the original, insecure standard. It has been superseded by the secure HTTPS protocol that encrypts anything you might enter into a form, including usernames and passwords.

Most up to date browsers will warn you if you are visiting a website that is using HTTP and not HTTPS. This is for your own safety. Snoopy neighbors or people in coffee shops on the same wireless network could be up to no good and be running "sniffers" on wireless traffic in the hopes somebody is browsing an unencrypted website and entering a user name and password. If they capture your transaction, they get the keys to whatever website you happened to be on.

If you followed an old, now outdated bookmark to our forum, it may have been HTTP only. Since that is insecure and you are looking at a login box, the browser is warning you that something could go wrong if you log into that form. Instead, type HTTPS, or just add the "s" after http, before the colon, in the location bar near the top of the browser. The correct URL should start with this:
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https://

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Ian Rae


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Redditch, England
Post  Posted 19 Jun 2021 12:27 am    
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Thanks, Wiz. That clears up something I've never been certain about. I didn't realise you could add your own 's' Smile
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Georg Sørtun


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Mandal, Agder, Norway
Post  Posted 19 Jun 2021 3:21 am    
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HTTPS Everywhwere is also an option…
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
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