Understanding Warning: Contains Unauthenticated Content

That's usually what it means (ads or other linked in content from unencrypted sources).  I'm not sure if there's a way to test whether the form you are filling out belongs to the encrypted or unencrypted parts of the page.  I'd recommend contacting the website with this question, if it appears to be at all untrustworthy.

-mitch

I did contact them via email and await a reply.  

I find IE and Firefox both show this site to have secure and insecure material and my reading suggests insecure material is a way for someone to get access to secure material.  Is this so?  I am afraid to give my info to them until I can get a secure order form page.

There is a Forum page that suggests a fix to this problem by downloading and installing "Admin SSL Secure" plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-ssl-secure-admin/).  I don't know what that is or how to install it.  Is it truly a fix?

Thanks and I await any replies.

Their reply did not address the problem but  rather instead told me how to place an order.  Sounds like they were dodging the issue or else did not know about such things as secure websites.

I still await any replies about the downloading and installing "Admin SSL Secure" plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-ssl-secure-admin/).  

Can anyone say anything about that?  Thanks.

Care to share the link so we can see what you are referring to?

Please post the URL of the page that triggers the warning.

Among other things, the warning can be triggered by having an HTML tag in a secure page that contains a URL that does not refer to a secure page.  Examples include an <img> tag that explicitly references an image stored on HTTP instead of HTTPS, or a favicon that is not on a secure server.  Mostly this is a benign warning, but I think that you, in a Presbyterian "abundance of caution," should probably not use the page to enter personal information.  Instead you might want to place your order over the phone or find a different vendor.

OK, thanks guys.  Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

The link where I got that Admin SSL plugin is:  (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-ssl-secure-admin/).  wher it says Download Version 1.4.1.

I haven't tried it but once but I didn't see where it went or that it installed or what it really did.  Is it  a viable fix?


I agree and was thinking the same thing in the back of my mind about those warnings being benign insofar as they represent unimportant  junk on the webpage.  It's just that somewhere I came across a paragraph that said that those insecure junk items can be used as a backdoor to getting into the secure information I enter in (my credit card number for instance) and robbing me of my number.

Could that be true?


I did end up finding a different vendor in this case that had a secure order form page.  But my entire question is about wanting to know if there is a way to "secure" such web order forms for my peace of mind.  Is there anything I can do from my end to secure an order form site before entering my information?  
Or perhaps I should ask:  Is there a way to determine which "insecure" items on a webpage might pose a threat or compromise of my sensitive information and can I neutralize that threat before submitting my credit card info?

Thanks once again.

Thanks Ray.  Good advice.  I like to "shop around" simply because I don't have but a few trusted sites and they don't always have everything I need.  So I am building my clientele.

Mostly I sort of believe in the law of averages-if that's the way to put it......in that it's like winning the lottery.  What are your chances?  Practically zero.  I feel that as long as you go with reputable or HTTPS websites, you probably will have no trouble and you would have to really shop alot before finally becoming unlucky and hitting a bad order form page that steals your information.  In other words, it's unlikely anything bad will happen.

Am I totally wrong in that belief?

I was just hoping that I could take added measures to make that eventuality even more unlikely.

I right clicked on this page and saw the View Source you mentioned and selected it.......I'm afraid I don't even know how to start to read that!  How do I begin to read such information?  Where do you look on it to find the specific info about where my form would be submitted to?

Thanks.

I think you would need to know HTMLm which is the language of web sites - a semester at a Junior college would teach you all you needed to know about that.

Also, I think you're on firm ground in comparing identity theft to Publisher's Clearing House.  Neither one is very likely.  The problem is that if your CC is stolen, it's a lot less fun than winning the lottery.  If you give your credit card to a waiter in a restaurant you have an equivalent risk, and how often does that go bad?  Almost never.

I have one credit card that I use for all online transactions.  It makes it very easy for me to check the statement carefully.

OK.  I will lay that part of my question to rest.  I guess there's not too much to worry about with credit cards.  I do have a system in place where I have an account that I devote to online purchases exclusively and I usually only put in funds to it at the time of purchase.  My bank helped me with that idea and setting it up.

I still hope someone can help with the Admin SSL plugin part of my question.

If no one knows about this Admin SSL plugin, I am going to close out this question as only half solved.

Thanks.

Thanks for the info given about part of my question.  The other part was never answered.  The answered part info was good advice.