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Help! I reinstalled SP2 after a bad virus problem. This included a full format. I now get the warning: "There is a problem with this website's security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server."

This is when when I try to go to banking and other financial type (secure) websites. I thought it might be a problem with I'E. so i uninstalled and then reinstalled it. This didn't help. I then installed Firefox which gave me the same type of warnings though I was able to instruct it that I would accept the certificates.

Has anyone seen anything like this before??

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Welcome to the Windows Forum!

Are you saying that you did not get these messages before the reinstall? You also used Internet Explorer 7 before?

I do not have the definitive answer for you, but you can find some information on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default...._https_imps.asp - look for 'End User' information.

If this happened to me trying to access my bank data, I would call the bank for information. (Or maybe I wouldn't, since my bank is located at the other side of the planet. But I would if it was nearer.)

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To clarify, when I refer to SP2, I mean Windows XP Home SP2, the full XP Home edition.

I was using IE7 on both my Desktop and my Laptop and both worked fine. My Desktop still accesses everything just fine but the laptop with the new install blocks access. The Microsoft Knowledge base has some info on this problem with IE7 but only suggests that you install the certificates or add the URL's that you want to access to your list of trusted sites. I tried this but at the point of entering my account, IE7 would loop me back to the login page. Pretty weird but I'm not too stressed about it now that I can use FireFox. Thanks for he advice though.

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