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why does each time i go to US IRS WEBSITE Firefox will warned: This Connection is Untrusted and inform www.irs.gov uses an invalid security certificate.

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I been having this for Month now... is it FIrefox fault or the IRS is really using invalid security certificate.

I been having this for Month now... is it FIrefox fault or the IRS is really using invalid security certificate.

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hello, the certificate for the site doesn't contain the right domain name (irs.gov). this is something that has to be fixed by the website - you might want to contact them and make them aware of the issue...

http://www.networking4all.com/en/support/tools/site+check/report/?fqdn=www.irs.gov&protocol=https
http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=https://www.irs.gov/

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hello, the certificate for the site doesn't contain the right domain name (irs.gov). this is something that has to be fixed by the website - you might want to contact them and make them aware of the issue...

http://www.networking4all.com/en/support/tools/site+check/report/?fqdn=www.irs.gov&protocol=https
http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=https://www.irs.gov/

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Thank You! Philipp for clearing it up....