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Laura_142481 Gold Member artist Posts: 583	Site not secure Jun 3^rd, 2019, 7:11pm Hi GCU! At main page to log in, the site is secure. The minute I put in my password, I'm looking at a warning sign in the url that the site is not secure. I'm on Chrome browser right now. I'll switch and see if it's the same for Safari. It's the same for Safari. I just checked. I'm hesitant to upload a card right now.
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Stephie_426394 GCU Newbies Posts: 34	Re: Site not secure Reply #1 - Jun 4^th, 2019, 8:33am Hi, Laura, I just checked mine on old Safari 10 and I didn't have any warning pages. -- Stephie
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Tanya_294968 GCU Newbies Posts: 37	Re: Site not secure Reply #2 - Jun 4^th, 2019, 8:50am I'm getting this a lot lately, I think it's Chrome etc updates. For me I't Not Secure but my own is... a lot from the US seem to be doing it for me lately but UK is fine.. most odd. Moonie
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Jay_134502 Senior Member artist Posts: 280	Re: Site not secure Reply #3 - Jun 4^th, 2019, 8:57am http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1548889293 Here is a previous post on the issue. Jay and Susan
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Re: Site not secure
Reply #4 - Jun 4^th, 2019, 11:29pm

Quote from Jay_134502 on Jun 4^th, 2019, 8:57am:

http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1548889293

Here is a previous post on the issue.
Jay and Susan

That post was from January. Since then the issue was fixed, but it's happening again. After I sign in, it's secure until I choose anything from the menu, like the forum, or images. Then the site is not secure. Same for Safari. Firefox is not even a browser I use any longer. I hope tech responds. It may be a MAC thing possibly. I'm looking at a red icon and words "Not Secure" in my browser as I type this.

OK... I can be more specific.... The Administrative Settings page to our store is secure, but if you choose to go onto the forum, etc., at the top ( in blue to the right of the GCU logo ) or choose "images," those pages are not secure. The URL at that point switches from secure to the red triangle icon with the words "Not Secure." The GCU blog doesn't load at all.

All other secure sites I navigate have been fine on my computer.

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Re: Site not secure
Reply #5 - Jun 17^th, 2019, 6:02pm

Hi GCU, it's June 17th, and when I log in, the site is secure. When I click "create a card" the next screen it takes me to is not secure. I wish I could post a screenshot here to show you. I'm on Chrome, but It's also happening on Safari. I'm not having this issue when I load my art onto other sites.

Thanks, in advance, for checking into this issue.

OK... I can be more specific- if you click on anything under the administrative settings, you're fine,and the site stays secure. If you click on the forum tab, site will then be not secure. Same goes for if you click "create card" from the blue tab above, rather than in administrative settings, the site will switch to "not secure."

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Annie_318298 GCU Newbies Posts: 2	Re: Site not secure Reply #6 - Jul 1^st, 2019, 7:07am I'm still having Chrome security issues on my phone...on my tablets and desktop after several months of initially reporting it. It's truly a pain to have to manually add https:// each and every time I go to an administrative page, not to mention the worry about securely uploading files!
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Stacia_208183 Gold Member Posts: 822	Re: Site not secure Reply #7 - Jul 1^st, 2019, 7:34am I have had similar issues since this was reported long ago, but I haven't had the time to write. I'll be drafting a note that I'll send directly to customer support (rather than in the forum) in the next few days that outlines some specific things I've noticed.
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Reply #8 - Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:03am

I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!

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Reply #9 - Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:34am

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:03am:

I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!

Thanks for this big tip! What I find particularly odd in my situation is that I do not have any problem with Chrome elsewhere - only here.

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Re: Site not secure
Reply #10 - Jul 1^st, 2019, 9:25am

Quote from Stacia_208183 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:34am:

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:03am:

I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!

Thanks for this big tip! What I find particularly odd in my situation is that I do not have any problem with Chrome elsewhere - only here.

My problems with Chrome began only here as well about a three months ago, then the issues elsewhere began very recently. Don't know what to make of that, but for me it worked to make a change.

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Re: Site not secure
Reply #11 - Jul 1^st, 2019, 6:27pm

I find the issue happens with Safari as well. I haven't used Firefox in years. But I did find a way in so that the site is secure when uploading an image to create a card. I mention it above in one of my previous comments. It took a bit of clicking around upon sign-in, but I found a way. This tells me that perhaps something has happened to the site coding that has cause a glitch, or maybe it just needs some updating. Haven't seen a response here about it yet from GCU. Would love to be able to share screen shots here on the forum when we encounter glitches. I'm on a fairly new Mac, so I have no issues with Chrome or Safari on the other sites I work on.

Have a good week everyone!

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Reply #12 - Jul 10^th, 2019, 7:03pm

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 9:25am:

Quote from Stacia_208183 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:34am:

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:03am:

I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!

Thanks for this big tip! What I find particularly odd in my situation is that I do not have any problem with Chrome elsewhere - only here.

My problems with Chrome began only here as well about a three months ago, then the issues elsewhere began very recently. Don't know what to make of that, but for me it worked to make a change.

Hi Doreen!

I'm on Safari on a new Mac and the site starts secure, but once I login with my password, the site becomes "not secure" according to the URL for GCU. It also happens on Chrome, which thankfully, is not causing me any problems. Oh well, I guess I'll just use it that way, but I am a bit paranoid that all of my personal info can now be easily viewed / hacked. I'm not having this issue with any other site.

Curious enough, the site is secure on my iPhone. But since there doesn't seem to be a way to upload a card to the site via phone, it's hard to know if the site would be unsecured at that point.

I'm also wondering if Chrome is more of a problem on PC's. I've updated to the Mojave operating system on my Mac, and everything seems fine. Except the GCU site. Oh well.

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Re: Site not secure
Reply #13 - Jul 10^th, 2019, 7:58pm

Quote from Laura_142481 on Jul 10^th, 2019, 7:03pm:

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 9:25am:

Quote from Stacia_208183 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:34am:

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:03am:

I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!

Thanks for this big tip! What I find particularly odd in my situation is that I do not have any problem with Chrome elsewhere - only here.

My problems with Chrome began only here as well about a three months ago, then the issues elsewhere began very recently. Don't know what to make of that, but for me it worked to make a change.

Hi Doreen!

I'm on Safari on a new Mac and the site starts secure, but once I login with my password, the site becomes "not secure" according to the URL for GCU. It also happens on Chrome, which thankfully, is not causing me any problems. Oh well, I guess I'll just use it that way, but I am a bit paranoid that all of my personal info can now be easily viewed / hacked. I'm not having this issue with any other site.

Curious enough, the site is secure on my iPhone. But since there doesn't seem to be a way to upload a card to the site via phone, it's hard to know if the site would be unsecured at that point.

I'm also wondering if Chrome is more of a problem on PC's. I've updated to the Mojave operating system on my Mac, and everything seems fine. Except the GCU site. Oh well.

Well that certainly is odd, isn't it? I imagine GCU is looking into the issue, but again it may not be on the GCU side of things. These kind of things are bizarre because the browsers keep getting updated, trying to be super secure, yet many times those updates cause errors with sites you know to be secure.

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Reply #14 - Jul 11^th, 2019, 12:08am

Quote from Doreen_139193 on Jul 10^th, 2019, 7:58pm:

Quote from Laura_142481 on Jul 10^th, 2019, 7:03pm:

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 9:25am:

Quote from Stacia_208183 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:34am:

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1^st, 2019, 8:03am:

I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!

Thanks for this big tip! What I find particularly odd in my situation is that I do not have any problem with Chrome elsewhere - only here.

My problems with Chrome began only here as well about a three months ago, then the issues elsewhere began very recently. Don't know what to make of that, but for me it worked to make a change.

Hi Doreen!

I'm on Safari on a new Mac and the site starts secure, but once I login with my password, the site becomes "not secure" according to the URL for GCU. It also happens on Chrome, which thankfully, is not causing me any problems. Oh well, I guess I'll just use it that way, but I am a bit paranoid that all of my personal info can now be easily viewed / hacked. I'm not having this issue with any other site.

Curious enough, the site is secure on my iPhone. But since there doesn't seem to be a way to upload a card to the site via phone, it's hard to know if the site would be unsecured at that point.

I'm also wondering if Chrome is more of a problem on PC's. I've updated to the Mojave operating system on my Mac, and everything seems fine. Except the GCU site. Oh well.

Well that certainly is odd, isn't it? I imagine GCU is looking into the issue, but again it may not be on the GCU side of things. These kind of things are bizarre because the browsers keep getting updated, trying to be super secure, yet many times those updates cause errors with sites you know to be secure.

Wow! What a thread, huh? Lol! And what was even weirder is that after I wrote my reply to you earlier, I went back onto the site using Chrome and all was good. Maybe the SSL is corrupted, or the site itself is having a coding issue somewhere? Hard to know. And of course, as I write this now, the site is not secure.

Thanks so much for responding! xo

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