Improved Shopping Security

We have finalized security improvements to make our site more compatible with Internet Explorer 7+ .

Despite the extreme difficulty and cost to implement we now, use the most secure encryption available for when logged in to your account or checking out. VeriSign SSL High Grade 256 Bit Encryption with Extended Validation.

You can also use encryption during casual browsing if you add an "s" to the "http" ie. https://www.AlerG.com/safeshopping.html
This may slow normal browsing down a bit since everything sent/received has to be encrypted.

Verisign required considerable "verification" from us to make the upgrades. This in my opinion was annoying but a good thing since it makes the upgrade more secure.

Why Verisign SGC: Strongest Encryption for the Most Visitors
Companies, governments and public institutions worldwide trust VeriSign to secure their sites and protect their brands.

• SGC-enabled SSL Certificates provide 128- or 256-bit encryption to over 99.9% of Web site visitors, including the tens of millions who use certain older versions of Windows and Internet Explorer. AlerG uses 256-bit - more secure. ... And pricey for us. ;-)
• VeriSign secures more than 500,000 Web servers worldwide, more than any other Certificate Authority.
• The world’s 40 largest banks and 93% of Fortune 500 companies choose VeriSign SSL Certificates.

Note: we have found that a small number of IE 7 users may get an error message when switching to secure mode. This is due to incorrect or unfinished IE setup, not upgrading to the latest IE version or some other issue. Do not worry, just click on the PADLOCK symbol and verify that you are on www.alerg.com. As long as the PADLOCK symbol appears somewhere in your browser and/or you have https showing you are encrypted.

Currently this message only sometimes appears on IE7, older versions of IE, Firefox, Netscape, and Opera do not appear to have the issue.