unsecure payment?

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I have registered with a website so I can download a cd from them and when I go to pay it says the page is not https. there is no yellow padlock at the bottom the of screen either but on the page it says secure payment page. Are they lieing?
 
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Which page is it? If it's showing in a frame or a pop-up window of some sort then it might be less obvious that it's secure, right click and look at the properties to see if that's the case.
 
I can't say I've ever looked for the padlock - my gut instinct tells me when something's safe.

If it worries you, you could use a credit card as that has a bit of protection built in.
 
Well if you had a look at their help page then you would have found this fella;)

Help page from that site said:
. Why does my browser not show the payment site to be secure?
Once you enter the payment section of the site you are entering a secure area. The site uses a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) with 128 bit MD5 encryption. This is the industry standard for encrypting e-commerce transactions. The reason that your web browser may not show that the page is secure is because the site uses something called a 'frameset'. This means that the top part of the page (with the Audiojelly Music Player in it) is a separate file to the bottom part of the page. The result of this is that some browsers don't notice that you are visiting other pages other than the starting page - you can see this in the browser address bar. If the address is 'http://www.audiojelly.com' and doesn't change at all no matter what page you go to within the audiojelly site then your browser believes that you are solely on the audiojelly.com start page. As a result when you go to the payment area of the site although the page you're on is encrypted and secure your web browser doesn't see this.
If you are still worried about the page being unsecured then you can move out of the site's frameset by opening a link within the site in a new browser window or tab (right-click on the 'view basket' link and select 'open in new window' or middle-click on the link). Now when you go to the payment area you will see that it is indeed secure and encrypted.
 
Spawn said:
Well if you had a look at their help page then you would have found this fella;)

yeh, cheers spawn, i found it was secure from the properties. Purchased and downloading my album now. First album ive bought online but i really like the tracks and would be VERY hard to come by. (apart from the live sets of them i got yesterday) :)
 
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