LeahRadiant
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For me, this thing kept popping up when I browsed websites with advertisements using Chrome.
I was able to make it stop by blocking the emxdgt.com site in Chrome’s site settings (I changed everything to “Block” including cookies and images).
Error while scanning the encrypted connection emxdgt, cs.emxdgt.com
in Kaspersky Total Security
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I do think “ignore and remember” would be fine. What’s apparently happening is that this site is trying to open http: without supporting https. That’s sketchy but not really a vector *if you don’t accept the connection* and choosing “ignore and remember” is like blocking, it’s just saying “remember I don’t want to let this site open http connections”. I definitely think the messaging in the popup could be better. But, since blocking the site in chrome (as in my post above) I haven’t had the popup return, I don’t think it could be anything like a keylogger or virus (as some have said above) - it’s clearly just part of the advertising in chrome, trying to load an image via http, which now the browser blocks silently so kasperksy doesn’t have to ask me anymore.
I get why people are worried! I was worried too, that’s why I came here. And the person saying to do ‘ignore and remember’ hasn’t explained why that’s safe to do very clearly. But it sure looks like it *is* safe to do. Though, still, I’m not going to do it, I blocked it in Chrome instead and that also works, try it yourself.