Webroot Filtering = Insecure Connection

Discussion in 'Prevx Releases' started by blinking_spirit, Nov 23, 2013.

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  1. blinking_spirit

    blinking_spirit Registered Member

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    Hi

    I started noticing that many of my HTTPS pages were started to show the ubiquitous warning in Chrome:
    http://i.imgur.com/W3Dg5YW.png

    On closer inspection on why this error kick in I check Chrome's tool and got this:
    The page at 'https://www' was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from 'http://localhost:27019/': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

    After doing some checking around it seems that the Webroot Filtering Extension (1.0.0.14) is causing the problem because as soon as I disable it things are fine.

    Is there any reason to be concerned?
     
  2. Techfox1976

    Techfox1976 Registered Member

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    Oh? Eeenteresting... *Goes to fire up Wireshark*
     
  3. PrevxHelp

    PrevxHelp Former Prevx Moderator

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    This is just the local agent communicating with itself - Chrome and other browsers block outside communications from the browser to other applications, so we need to send messages back and forth to validate the pages as they're being visited. This doesn't compromise your security or cause outside websites/snoopers to be able to view content. I'm a bit surprised that Chrome is warning about it as we aren't showing content on the page (unless you're only seeing it on search results?) but I'll take a closer look to see what they're flagging.
     
  4. pegas

    pegas Registered Member

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    It is known issue that was observed across all Chromium based browsers and is still pending a fix.
     
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