macc metals

Hi folks,

I've used above for a long while and been well pleased,however going on their web page today it seems the site is unsecure and I am warned that someone may be trying to hack my info and to get off site sharpish,anyone else experienced this or have any suggestions please

regards Mick h

I get the message "do you want only the content downloaded securely" which is very common and i get on a lot of sites. I don't think it means there is any problem with the site, just that it hasn't paid some fee to be registered with someone who will then say the site is registered. It may just be my computer is protecting me so I wouldn't see even if it was an ebola carrier.

Doesn't actually mean a registered site is safe, just that they got conned into paying the fee. There is a similar process around some 'certificates' where they try to bad-mouth sites that haven't paid their fee.

About an hour before reading the post I made a purchase of materials from Macc Models and had no problems or warning and for the record I'm using AVG

H

Hi Mick,

if you are referring to maccmodels.co.uk, then i just went on it.

The homepage url automatically starts with the picture of a padlock, followed by https://maccmodels.co.uk

To the best of my knowledge, it means that this is a secure website. Secure generally means safe, as I understand it. If you visit ARCs website homepage, the url starts off with www...It becomes safe and secure once you log-in, after which it turns from just www., to padlock, followed by https://www.arc.....

Macc does not need to put a secure certificate logo on its site. ARC just does it for the 'consumer comfort' factor.

Ketan at ARC.

Just had a snoop around Macc models site, they've got a valid SSL certificate registered until Jan 2016 so as far as I'm concerned there isn't a 'security issue' with the site.

Mick, I've seen plenty of those sort of warnings pop up and they are usually linked to some form of spyware of bot that has been inadvertently downloaded to the local machine and try to trick you into following a link to a subvertive and unscrupulous site. Suggest you run a thorough scan of your machine, using a spyware detecting app, Spybot or Mawarebytes are a good jumping off point.

Graeme

Thanks chaps,

allowing for the fact that I am a war baby and are therefore a bit thick around computers I do tend to worry about these things. The page that comes up has a red padlock the https address is red with a red line through it and the legend announces "Privacy Error-connection is not private"with a "back to safety" box. I have scanned with AVG and all seems well, this also happens on maddmodders site.

Mick h

I've had similar probs with M-Machine site, the majority of the site is fine but when tried downloading their metals catalogue I got a warning that this web page was insecure & caused IE to stop working, needed to reload page & tried again.. same message.. maybe will have to call them & pass the info along, could be a Trojan on that particular page.. strange as it doesn't seem to affect their other pages..?

George.

I have done as coalburner suggested and installed "Malwarebytes"and done a scan and all clear, where do all these files come from? Anyhow thanks for advice

Mick h

Hi maccmodels.co.uk here.

Had a few people contact me about this over the last couple of weeks.

Seems our SSL certificate wasn't fully supporting very old devices and browsers. The issue has been resolved today, at a small cost to myself.

I can assure you we pay a lot per year to insure our site is secure. I can also assure you nobody is “hacking” your computer or personal details.

If anyone would like me to send them a copy of my SSL certificate I would be more than happy to.

Kind Regards Joe

Managing Director Macclesfield Model Engineers Supplies LTD

Edited By Joe Poulton on 19/03/2015 15:02:23

Hi Joe - keep your (server-side) copy of your SSL certificate to yourself please - or else people will start setting up web sites that can claim to be you

Loaded all my items in to the Macc metals online basket yesterday but their site is unavailable to my PC and iPad today so think they may have connection issue somewhere? Can use another supplier but it's a pain to reload all the items again, will wait see if they sort it soon

Ubuntu/Firefox doesn't like ...

"maccmodels.co.uk uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate expired on 17/01/16 14:33. "

Rog

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 17/01/2016 16:30:54

Joe,

I have just tried via my iPad & it seems that it's GeoTrust [your certificate issuer] that is not trusted, rather than your good self.

I don't profess to understand the details, but you may wish to investigate.

MichaelG.

P.S. ... I have sent you a PM

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 17/01/2016 18:05:19

Looks like Joe has a problem of certificate expiry, ordered some stuff a few days ago with no problem but now my PC comes up with an unsafe site warning when I try to connect.

Hope Joe gets it sorted ok because I like using them.

Bill D

I got the same warnings in Firefox and IE. I changed the browser settings, to tell the browser to ignore the security warning (it is a trusted site after all). I went to Tools, then Security, and then added the web address as an 'Exception' (trusted website). Restarted the browser. All is ok.

Steve

Yep I tried just now and site appears to have a problem, I'm with Bill hope it gets sorted soon as I rate Macc very highly too

Mick

I generally use an iPad and very few sites come up with "not trusted" but Maccmodels is one of them at present.

Edited By Vic on 17/01/2016 19:36:16

If you are desperate to view the website, just 'trust the website', until Macc Model gets the certificate fixed.

Steve