DylanJ wrote:
The dialog that appears saying yes no always , as regards the acceptance of the suspicious SSL cert is , i guess the security boudary .. one the user accepts they pass that boundary and are possibly compromised . what im saying is that it is this fact that is the problem ... users shouldnt be bothered with this sort of thing .. they are not , in general experienced enough ..
I'm not sure what you're talking about. When a webpage tries to display both secure and non-secure content, I get a pop-up saying yes/no/more info. When the certificate doesn't match the server, IE7 displays an error page that I think communicates that the site may be dangerous without burderning users with terminology.

EDIT: Grammar, and here's a screenshot: