I always check my home email at work. I’ve been doing it for years. My email provider is the cable company. Suddenly I am receiving the following message after I enter my password:
The info you’re about to submit is not secure. Because the site is using a connection that’s not completely secure, your info will be visible to others.
Then I have 2 options:
Send Anyway or Go Back
Is this a provider issue? An internet issue? What do I do?
What that message means is that your user and password are sent on the network as regular text and can be viewed by anyone looking at the network packets. They could look at the network packets and see your login as “trc4941/passw0rd”. If the connection was encrypted instead, that data would look like a bunch of random characters and anyone viewing the packets would not get your login info.
What program are you using to check your email and what service has your email? When your email program logs into the mail server, it can send the user/password in plain text or it can send it encrypted. If your email program recently updated, it may be printing that message now where before it didn’t say anything. Assuming that it is sending the login in clear text, you would want to change your mail settings so that the mail program used a secure connection. The values for those settings will be dependent on the email server.
I’m using Chrome - is that what you mean by what program?
Mediacom is my email provider.
Try installing the “HTTPS Everywhere” plugin
Possibly just make sure you’re going to https://mediacom.com instead of http://mediacom.com (or whatever the URL is).
I just added this-Thank you.
I’ll give it a try! Thanks