"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Running IE7 in WinXP, I'm taken to a different but related page that says...
>
> <QP>
> 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.
> <snip>
> </QP>

That's what I should be seeing, but I don't. All I get is the error message
that IE can't display the webpage. Is the self-signed certificate the reason
why IE won't show me the webpage, and if so, how can I get it to show it to
me?

I don't know if I have the Root certificates update installed. How could I
find it to install it?
As for Windows updates, the ones that are labelled "important" are
automatically installed. The ones labelled "optional" or "recommended"
haven't been installed. Some of those are updates for Windows Vista, but
none described as updates for internet explorer haven't been installed. If I
installed the "recommended" updates for Windows Vista would it maybe fix the
problem?
I don't have anti-virus software running. Windows Defender is running. The
firewall is on. I tried adding the SSL port to the firewall, that didn't do
it. I tried taking the firewall down and I wasn't able to load the page.
The firewall is what came with Windows Vista.
Laura
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