Certificate alert
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SE Georgia
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Certificate alert
when I click a item in the forum I get a small screen with certificate alert. Options..continue, yes, no, view certificate. I click on view certificate, I can view the c ertificate, but can not leave this screen. Any suggestions. Have you had this experience??
#2
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Central PA
Posts: 1,920
Security alert ????
For the past several days when reading the QG, I get this security alert and try as I may, I cannot clear the message from the middle of the page.
This the message which seems to apply: "the name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the same of the site". This is one of four options and this one has an alert icon at the front. The other three have green check marks. ????
Is anyone else getting this message? I only have these messages when on the QB. Please help. Thank you.
This the message which seems to apply: "the name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the same of the site". This is one of four options and this one has an alert icon at the front. The other three have green check marks. ????
Is anyone else getting this message? I only have these messages when on the QB. Please help. Thank you.
#3
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 796
Been getting the same, too. So bad in fact, that it's prevented me from logging-in and posting, because it won't let me post until the warning clears, and no matter how many times I click on it, it just keeps on popping up again and again.
#8
I've not gotten this, however, I often find that it has to do with browser alert settings. Browsers check sites for their security - this has security which you can see in the url with the https: that 's' is the clue. But to have security there are a lot of things that all have to work together. Images have to be in a safe place, links have to be valid and not to some virus laden ad, etc. Even the owner of the certificate has to have a valid name and address. So if your browser is looking at all of that and finding something off, it may alert you about the site. And it is looking every time you come to the board.
To resolve it in this case, you need to make sure your browser is up to date, and then you can add the website to your 'safe' list in your browser site list so it stops rechecking the security.
If it isn't this, then you really want to run a virus check on your computer while NOT being connected to the Internet and see if there is a bug in your browser. There are several non-destructive viruses that just hijack your browser. Non-destructive in that they don't hurt your computer, but they grab anything you type in and watch where you're going and so forth. All not good.
Hope that wasn't too much geek speak, but I'm a programmer analyst by trade, and I own an Internet based company in which I am the web tech. So I have these issues with my users from time to time and have to walk them through it all.
Happy computing!
To resolve it in this case, you need to make sure your browser is up to date, and then you can add the website to your 'safe' list in your browser site list so it stops rechecking the security.
If it isn't this, then you really want to run a virus check on your computer while NOT being connected to the Internet and see if there is a bug in your browser. There are several non-destructive viruses that just hijack your browser. Non-destructive in that they don't hurt your computer, but they grab anything you type in and watch where you're going and so forth. All not good.
Hope that wasn't too much geek speak, but I'm a programmer analyst by trade, and I own an Internet based company in which I am the web tech. So I have these issues with my users from time to time and have to walk them through it all.
Happy computing!
#9
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Wisconsin-Alabama Gulf Coast Snow Bird
Posts: 2,196
This was happening to me last week. It only happened here on QB and it was very frustrating. Had DH take a look at that and he told me to change from MSN to Google Chrome and I haven't had a problem since.
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