What was this?

[Craig234]

I had a thread open I was reading before. I hit refresh and got a page warning 'this page is not secure, someone might be trying to steal your password on anandtech' with a button for safety.

It had the "https:" in the URL in red and a slash through it showing it wasn't in effect.

Any time I tried to open the thread the window popped open instead.

Finally I had to leave the site and go to it again to finally not get the window.

 

[Crono]

Occasionally you'll get an insecure connection warning if there are temporary issues connecting to the server, but if it was an actual popup or redirect it could have been from a malicious ad (see other thread).

If you aren't getting it all the time, though, I wouldn't worry about it. But if it does happen again a screenshot and basic system details (OS, browser, browser extensions) would be helpful.

 

[Craig234]

Ran a malwarebytes, nothing found.