Thanks for the replies. This is interesting. Since the avast! plug-in does not ‘break’ encrypted connections in Chrome - then Chrome must be broken by not reporting compromised secure connections. I guess Safari is doing it’s job by making sure that the Safari user knows that its https/encrypted connections have been tampered with. It is unfortunate that this plug-in has this ‘behavior’. This has lessened my opinion of the overall product. I had found version 8 trouble free and it caught some stuff that Sophos for Mac had missed. At this point, I can no longer recommend this software to anyone.