Security Fail
August 29, 2008 by David Smith
Filed under Dave's Design Dungeon, Technology
Why is it, that when you put a site into your “trusted site” list in Internet Explorer, that somehow causes IE to start asking you if you are sure you want to go there?
I put it in the trusted site list so you wouldn’t ask me that. Why start now?
Or is it unfair to bash an eight year old operating system? I don’t care. I’m going to do it anyway.
Portia on Fri, 6th Aug 2010 11:12 pm
DAve –
Did you ever find a way to fix this? I was unable to export massive spreadsheets from a client’s website and had resorted to trekking across a security-restricted area to log into one of their computers, download the spreedsheets to a thumbdrive and go back to my own office, which took way too much time from my day). After a month of screaming at quite a few of the client’s IT people as well as my company’s IT person about not being able to use my own brand new computer at my own desk to do my job, it was discovered that I simply needed to set the client’s website as “trusted.” – a five minute fix that took the least senior IT person to pinpoint.
Now, every time I log into the site, I get the same annoying pop-up – definitely not a big trade-off compared to my previous experience with their site. But then when I say “yes”, I immediately get the same pop-up a second time. To make matters worse, their accounting system cycles data every hour, knocking me out and returning me to the log-in screen, where I get the pop-up yet again! I really hope you can help, since all of the IT people from both companies use their caller-id.
And tell Eh-wick to check his pi-symbol e-mail.
-Portia