Security warning message when looking at hotmail!

[AledJ]

I was checking my dad's hotmail for an email he wanted and a strange message came up-

Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?

This webpage contains content that will not be delivered using a secure HTTPS connections, which could compromise the security of the entire webpage


Now I loaded msn then went to the email bit, and that was the message which appeared when hotmail loaded. I also noticed that the address bar usually has https at the start (which it did), but then switched to http. I'm not sure what has gone here, because if I log into my mums xp account and sign etc the message does not appear and the address bar goes from https to http.

Any idea why it appears?

Would this sort it?


You can also turn it off in Internet Explorer and check.

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

a) Launch Internet Explorer.

b) Click on Tools

c) Now select Internet Options from the drop down menu

d) Select the Security Tab

e) Click the ‘Custom Level’ button

f) In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change “Display mixed content” to Enable

g) Click on OK.

h) Close internet options.

Edit- I have check the option in both my mum's IE and dad's IE and both have this on prompt, so i won't be changing it as there is not issue with my mum's. I'm wandering if a third party advert you get on the side of hotmail, may be causing it?

[scaryjim]

If it's not embedded content in the specific email, then it's likely to be a third party ad looking to pull something on a http: connection rather than https:. Often happens with things like images that are embedded by absolute paths rather than relative paths, or stylesheets (particularly if the stylesheet has embedded urls).

[stilkun]

I was checking my dad's hotmail for an email he wanted and a strange message came up-

Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?

This webpage contains content that will not be delivered using a secure HTTPS connections, which could compromise the security of the entire webpage

I seen this few times with some of my emails and website I vist. You get this message only when you are on secure HTTPS site and the content may not display correctly or not viewable in secure site so it ask if you want to change to a non-secure version which is HTTP to view the content.

I usually leave it to default as I rather not mess around with security but I don't use IE, I use chrome or firefox.