Security Certificate Error... rogers.yahoo.com?

[somecanadianguy]

I got this error last night when opening my default page (rogers.yahoo.com) in IE8...
Still getting it today.



Any ideas why? or what I should do?

[DaleF]

Do you have any details on what the error actually is?

[Devious]

This error is a security error designed to protect you against fraudulent websites/warn you against fake security certificates.

Just in case you're not aware, when you connect to a website through SSL (HTTPS://), it requires a certificate. There are two options, the site can purchase a certificate from a legitimate, trusted certificate provider, which will prevent this kind of error from happening. Or, they can generate they're own, self-signed certificate, which will generate an error. In addition to that, some people don't understand certificates and add wrong ones to the wrong sites, which will also generate the above error.

So what this is telling is the Yahoo certificate used for rogers.yahoo.com is expired and they need to renew it with a Trusted Provider or assign the proper certificate to the listed subdomain.

As long as the url isn't being hijacked and you're not being redirected somewhere else, then most likely they just forgot to update their certs. If you're not doing any financial transactions or have any secure information that you use on that site, then you can, if you want, go ahead and just accept the broken certificate and continue viewing the site.

[mo' power]

I've been having the same problem on my gf pc. mine is fine but hers is having this problem.

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[mo' power]

Originally Posted by somecanadianguy

I got this error last night when opening my default page (rogers.yahoo.com) in IE8...
Still getting it today.



Any ideas why? or what I should do?

I tried going back to IE7 and still no go. It's messing up her msn as well. I've tried googling it to no avail. I even did an os reinstall for the hell of it and still no go. I'm totally stumped on this one. It was working fine one day and the next day pffffttttt! It happened 4-5 days ago.

I should also mention it does this with firefox as well. Anyone else using rogers having this problem?

[sswilson]

Yahoo is aware of the issue and is working on getting it resolved.

[DarKStar]

LOL - I know this may sound stupid but is your clock/calendar set correctly ? :)

[mo' power]

Thanks sswilson! You always seem to be here to comfort us in our time of need. So I'm assuming it's a yahoo issue and not a rogers issue? Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I looked at the security certificate and everything looked ok.

[sswilson]

It's a server side Yahoo issue. (Trust me.... ;) ).