Microsoft Internet Explorer can be annoying. You are surfing the web or doing a search on Google or Yahoo! and then you try to go a website that you know and trust, like www.math.uh.edu, and a pop up window appears warning you about security and asking you to make a choice about something you are unsure of. What do you do?
In order to view the webpage, you will have to click the Yes button. Then if you return to this page or another page from this website, you are asked again to allow the site or not.
The problem occurs when you are at an untrusted site and moving to a trusted site. IE is warning you about this because some malicious websites might display a page or some content from a legitimate website to trick you into thinking you are at a trusted site, so that you might give them important information like credit card numbers or name and password, or email addresses.
If you are seeing the above window when trying to view webpages from the department website, then you can either use the recommended Mozilla Firefox OR if you must use Internet Explorer, here are some instructions to help you fix this annoying problem.
If the problem is specifically to address the problem between Google and math.uh.edu while searching for content on our department website, use solution #1.
For other websites, you can either not go to the site, just accept the pop up window each time you visit it or use Solution #1 or #2.
Solution #1:
| This solution specifically involves adding Google to the list of trusted websites so that moving from a Google to math.uh.edu is not a problem. You can add a different address or addresses to suit your own needs. |
| 1) Launch IE and if Google is not your homepage, go to Google and the open the Tools Menu and choose Internet Options. |
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| 2) Click on the Security tab and then click on the icon for Trusted sites. Click on the Sites button. |
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| 3) If you are already at Googles webpage, then it will already be in the textbox under "Add this website to the zone:". If not, click in the text box and type in: http://www.google.com. You should also see the http://www.math.uh.edu address already in the list of trusted zones. You might see more listed or add more if you want. |
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| 4) There is a checkbox for "Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone" which should be unchecked before trying to add any site that does not begin with https:. |
| 5) When you click the add button, the Google website should be added to the "Websites:" list. Then you can click Ok to close the Trusted Sites window. Click the Ok button on the Internet Options window to close it. |
Solution #2
| This solution involves changing the behaviour of IE when moving from any untrusted websites to any trusted websites. This is not recommended as it could make IE even less secure than it already is. |
| 1) Launch IE and go to the Tools Menu and choose Internet Options. |
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| 2) Click on the Security tab and then click on the icon for Trusted sites. As a side note: If you click on the Sites button, you can see which sites have been trusted. |
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| 3) Now click on the Custom Level... button and you should see the Trusted Sites Zone window. |
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| 4) In the Settings list, scroll down close to the bottom of the list until you find the "Websites in less privileged web content zone can navigate into this zone" like above. Change the setting under this from Prompt to Enabled and click the Ok button. Another pop up window will appear. |
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| 5) Click the Yes button and the Trusted Sites Zone window should close. Click the Ok button on the Internet Options window to close it. |
That should fix that problem.