Why do I constantly get "This Connection is Untrusted" intermittently and showing unrelated site names?
Greetings,
I am using firefox 34.0 on Win7 64bit. This issue occurs intermittently and after I've been viewing and navigating a known secure website. The error message will show completely unrelated sites under the "Technical Details". If I close the browser and restart it, and return to the known secure site the next time the error occurs the sites listed will be different.
in addition the sites listed have not been visited during that browsing session. And none are accessed through the viewed pages (i.e. "ads").
I have read the other questions of this type and their solutions and tried them. Nothing has helped. This problem started either in 32.0 or 33.0.
Thanks!
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Are you referring to the issuer domain of the certificate?
What sites do you see listed?
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
Thank you for replying.
Yes, I am referring to the issuer domain of the certificates. Typically the sites I see are all google related. Occasionally I've seen akamai and some others. And the issuer domains are not being browsed in any other window or tab, and have not been viewed between booting up and browsing.
I will try what you've suggested and will reply here with the results.
I'm also curious to know if anyone else has had an identical problem. When started looking into this it appeared that the other posts were describing different causes to the same symptom.
Thanks for your help!
Websites like akamai are used as external CDN (content delivering network) servers that store (host) all kind of content like images and JavaScript and CSS file. Those CDN servers are designed to handle a large amount of requests quickly, so the actual website only needs to send the main HTML file.