Re: Security problem at Gmail.com

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"P. Burrows" <me_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1df07d67eeb6fa33989f47@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <MRohf.32613$qw.18926@fed1read07>, null@xxxxxxxx says...
> > "P. Burrows" <me_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:MPG.1df029fbc85efee6989f46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to
> > > display the nonsecure items?"
> >
> > You could try disabling "warn if changing between secure to not secure
mode"
> > in IE under Options->Advanced. Not sure it will help, it may only
affect
> > changes on the primary connection, but worth trying.
>
> I'll have a look.
>
> > If that doesn't work, a good Spam filter, such as found in Norton
Internet
> > Security, Google toolbar, lots of tools, will prevent downloading of
these
> > images, and thus prevent the problem in the first place.
>
> So you are suggesting using Google to defeat Google, eh? *g*
>

Sort of, anything that blocks ads has the potential to mitigate the
circumstances. And to be fair, the problem is not Google, per se, but SPAM.
As I said, I'd have the same problem w/ Yahoo! Mail except I have several
hurdles that SPAM has to cross -- Yahoo!'s own SPAM blocking which either
never lets spam through at all (the whole message is blocked) or a
preferences option that blocks all images unless I specifically hit a link
on the email message that "shows HTML graphics" (i.e., embedded SPAM). Or,
my Norton Internet Security ad-blocking feature.

> > I don't have the
> > previous option disabled in my case, yet have no problems w/ this
annoying
> > pop-up because my pop-ad and spam blockers never let it get that far :)
>
> They can stop that? Its not what I would call a popup, its a dialog box
> that Exlorer (and Opera too for that matter) displays on its own accord
> because it thinks something is funny, not a javascript opening
> something. Which programs do you use that can block that?
>

I didn't make this as clear as I could have. What I meant was, since these
images are often SPAM, if you have an ad-blocker applications of some kind,
the good ones will recognize these images as SPAM, strip them from the HTML
(that's how they work), and thus your secure connection never attempts to
retrieve the images. Obviously if the image is never retrieved in the first
place, the pop-up dialog you are now experiencing never pops up! I'm NOT
claiming that somehow I've figured a way to KILL that dialog, but merely
techniques that hopefully never let things get that far.

Jim

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