why does yahoo email prompt`'You are about to view pages over a secure connection' only sometimes?

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jean-francois

Hi


It's a strange thing that some times when I logon to my email account
(a yahoo web based account). I'm getting this popup once I typed my
password (i.e. it tells me I'm gonna use a secure connection) but that
often, from the same computer, it doesn`t ask me that.
What is the criteria for IE to warn you with this popup only sometimes?

To me it sounds that either it should prompt you always or either
never, for exemple if you tick 'do not show this in the future'.
I can surf to some place, then logon to fetch my email and some times
it will display this popup, some other days not.
 
One possible (but admittedly not very plausible) scenario is that the page
being accessed by Yahoo mail has randomized ads in it, and some of those
involve secure pages - thus, it will depend on what ad you get served at the
time. I bet if you could go back and try again after getting one of these
messages, it wouldn't do it again.

Just a theory.
 
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