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Where do I report when I receive message: Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites?

AlanPinck
AlanPinck
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Specifically I have: Your connection is not secure

The owner of support.microsoftsecurityessentials.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

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Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites

support.microsoftsecurityessentials.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names: 

 a248.e.akamai.net, *.akamaized.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaized-staging.net

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

Specifically I have: Your connection is not secure The owner of support.microsoftsecurityessentials.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website. Learn more… Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites support.microsoftsecurityessentials.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: a248.e.akamai.net, *.akamaized.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaized-staging.net Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

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FredMcD
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Try these links; http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/getting-started-with-security-essentials

AlanPinck
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This might help for the specific site but I don't think it answers the general question of where to report such "errors".

Note that the original link was provided by microsoft securities essentials when it detected a "Potential Threat" as a place to go to.

James (doing minimal support dowdays)
James (doing minimal support dowdays)
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AlanPinck said

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-untrusted-error-message https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

Some common reasons one can get this is date/time in wrong on OS, using a proxy, or using a antiviruhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUERs client that is trying to be helpful by inserting its own certificate and instead can cause secure connection errors.