IE7/Vista and site certificate problems

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Jeffrey Kaplan

I just reinstalled Vista (Ultimate, 32bit) and am in the process of
setting up my software, etc.

Every web page I go to that has a security certificate I get an error:

| 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

Every page. Regardless of whether I type in the URL manually or use a
bookmark. Netflix, my bank, some pages on Google. This caused the
Google Toolbar download/install to break, causing IE to fail to load
until I uninstalled the "Google Updater".

I'm not getting any firewall alerts about anything trying to
communicate out when this happens, and in the process of installing
software, I've trained the firewall (Kaspersky Internet Suite 7) to
allow connections to various certificate authority sites.

I've checked the security settings in MSIE, and it looks OK to me. But
I'm obviously missing something and I have no idea what.
 
Security certificates are issued for given time periods. If IE determines that the
current time (from your client computer) does not fall into the server certificate
time range, it will give this error. Make sure your computer's time, day, year and
time zone are set correctly.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance

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I just reinstalled Vista (Ultimate, 32bit) and am in the process of
setting up my software, etc.

Every web page I go to that has a security certificate I get an error:

| 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

Every page. Regardless of whether I type in the URL manually or use a
bookmark. Netflix, my bank, some pages on Google. This caused the
Google Toolbar download/install to break, causing IE to fail to load
until I uninstalled the "Google Updater".

I'm not getting any firewall alerts about anything trying to
communicate out when this happens, and in the process of installing
software, I've trained the firewall (Kaspersky Internet Suite 7) to
allow connections to various certificate authority sites.

I've checked the security settings in MSIE, and it looks OK to me. But
I'm obviously missing something and I have no idea what.
 
Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, Carey Frisch
[MVP] said:
Security certificates are issued for given time periods. If IE determines that the
current time (from your client computer) does not fall into the server certificate
time range, it will give this error. Make sure your computer's time, day, year and
time zone are set correctly.
Click to expand...

Time zone, date and time are all correct.

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, Jeffrey Kaplan
said:
I just reinstalled Vista (Ultimate, 32bit) and am in the process of
setting up my software, etc.

Every web page I go to that has a security certificate I get an error:
Click to expand...

Found the problem, finally. For some reason, when Kaspersky Internet
Security is set to scan encrypted connections, it breaks the use of
certificates.

I realized the problem was external to IE when I tried to use Firefox
and got the exact same problem.

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol

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Hero's True Love. You'll buy it when she gets kidnapped.
 
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