How to get rid of the "WebProcess attempted to access these secure websites" popup?

[di Miriam]

Hello everyone,

Is there anyway of disabling the "WebProcess attempted to access these secured websites" popup (see attached) when using a limited account? Under this account, only specific websites can be accessed, and this popup shows up so frequently and randomly that it is making the account unusable. Isn't there some sort of "don't show me this again" feature, or, even better, disabling it all together?

Thanks in advance!

 

[chas_m]

There's no attached. Sounds like you clicked on an ad banner or visited some website you really shouldn't have. It's not a virus but either you've got some malware of some sort or you've installed a child-proof web nanny that's out of control.

 

[di Miriam]

Sorry about that. It's definitely not malware but a MAC feature on a limited account that only has a white list of pages that it can access. So if for example it does not have Facebook.com enabled, a pop up will come up every time a site has some sort of connection with it. This can happen multiple times within the span of a few seconds.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

I setup a limited account for my daughter on her iMac and she spends most of her time between Disney Jr and Nick Jr, and these sorts of pop-ups to various sites makes the account completely unusable. Ever after I white list a particular domain, it pops up a box a second later. VERY annoying..I ended up having to remove the website restrictions all together and teach her to not click on random things to avoid leaving these two sites..

 

[vansmith]

A quick simple solution (a blunt instrument if you will) would be to use a different browser. WebProcess is part of Safari's sandboxing functionality and I'm not sure you can disable it so using a different browser will let you get around this.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Ahh good point Van..I'll have to switch my daughter over to Chrome and see how well that works..I wanted to keep her machine as "stock" as possible should I have to restore it..

 

[vansmith]

I have to wonder if the sandboxing processes of other browsers will cause issues. If anything, I'd guess that Chrome would be worse since it spawns numerous processes (I'm up to 11 now including the helpers and workers). If you try that out, let me know how it goes.

 

[di Miriam]

Thanks, Van. I gave another browser a tried (Firefox), and I got the same thing.

Is there no modification that can be made on the MAC software itself to disable this function altogether? I know for a fact that I will never use it on this account, so I wouldn't mind seeing it go from my MAC completely.

 

[vansmith]

Ah, I see what the problem is (I skipped right over this initially). OS X's built in parental controls don't work well with secure sites regardless of browser. As you can see here, the filter for parental controls can't read secure connections (sites that start with https) and as such, it throws up a red flag. Thus, you can do one of two things: disable parental controls or buckle in and be prepared to manually add each and every https site to your whitelist.

 

[di Miriam]

Thanks again, Van. I am sorry to hear those are the only two options, as the parental controls must stay, and many of the websites that come up are not to be added.

Is there any MAC application that provides a white-list feature for websites? Then I could twiddle with the parental controls to allow access to the internet in general but filter it through the application so as to meet the user's needs.

Thanks again.

 

[vansmith]

I don't have any experience with any myself but there's a list here that you could look at. None of them will be quite as elegant as the built in controls but they will be considerably more configurable and powerful. However, you'll have to spend a little more time setting them up.

 

[di Miriam]

Thanks again, Van. I'll take a look at them and see if fits the bill.