Anyone else getting this Security Alert?

[Appleton]

So I just installed the Captain Sim 727-100 and got this alert.
The identity of this web site or the integrity of this connection cannot be verified.
I clicked no and the plane worked fine. I then uninstalled the plane (just to see if it was causing the alert) and it was still there. I don't know what is causing it and I do not want to risk getting some virus.

[Rogen]

Sounds like a http connection beng made rather than a https connection. A https connection would have a certificate attached to it verifying the identity of the website.

Is a webpage opening?

Sometimes when a piece of software is installed a link to a website opens to display relevent info on the software (or just to say thanks for the purchase) and depending on how old the piece of software is it may be either a http or a https connection.

Basically all the big guns in the web (Google etc.) went https when they found out about Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) and how a rolling database was being kept of all internet accesses.

All the major browsers now give warnings when a connection is not https, plus the Euro states brought in their new privacy rules this year.

Cheers

[Appleton]

Originally posted by Rogen:

Sounds like a http connection beng made rather than a https connection. A https connection would have a certificate attached to it verifying the identity of the website.

Is a webpage opening?

Sometimes when a piece of software is installed a link to a website opens to display relevent info on the software (or just to say thanks for the purchase) and depending on how old the piece of software is it may be either a http or a https connection.

Basically all the big guns in the web (Google etc.) went https when they found out about Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) and how a rolling database was being kept of all internet accesses.

All the major browsers now give warnings when a connection is not https, plus the Euro states brought in their new privacy rules this year.

Cheers

I think that might be it, I think the website is the news articles on the Home page of FSX. However I'm not sure.