Insecure Sites Randomly Open

[Thescorb0]

When I leave my device, it sometimes opens Vivaldi with 2 tabs when I come back. The first one is at msftconnecttest.com/redirect, and shows a red exclamation mark and that my connection is not private. The second page is at https://www.gstatic.com/generate_204 and just says that it cannot connect. What can I do about this?

[DoctorG]

@thescorb0 The domain msftconnecttest.com has no valid certificate for SSL connections, a web server malconfiguration you can not fix.
But you can hit the Advanced button at error page and continue.

But why do you use https://www.msftconnecttest.com? It works with http://www.msftconnecttest.com.

[Thescorb0]

@doctorg I use the HTTPS everywhere extension, so it automatically redirected it to https.

[DoctorG]

@thescorb0 said in Insecure Sites Randomly Open:

I use the HTTPS everywhere extension, so it automatically redirected it to https.

You can not expect that every domain has a SSL connection. You need to add a exception for those sites without/broken SSL.

[nomadic]

@thescorb0 said in Insecure Sites Randomly Open:

When I leave my device, it sometimes opens Vivaldi with 2 tabs when I come back. The first one is at msftconnecttest.com/redirect

Maybe your computer is losing connection to the internet and then reconnecting? That website shows up on Windows when you connect to a network with a captive portal before the router redirects you to the sign in page for the network.

A web search did show that some viruses also open that URL before redirecting to malicious sites, but not sure if that is what is happening.

Some information: https://www.comparitech.com/net-admin/fix-msftconnecttest-redirect-error/