Hey people I have a problem,
Each and every-time I try to login to my account Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 shows me a page tell that "There is a problem with this website's security certificate." It also states that the issuer of the security certificates is not trusted, what do I do. Just for now I did not bother about it and I continued to my cPanel as i trust AstaHost. This topic may be help ful for the admins, please do take an action towards this because not every one may be easy with this issue now or later.

That's funny - I use both IE and Firefox with Asta - never got that message, nor have we heard any other use complaining !!!

I seriously dont know whats happening, it just keeps on saying the same thing over and over again, so I just installed that certificate be ....xisto.com (something like that). Now it does'nt seem to bother me much.

This post has been edited by ganeshn11: May 3 2006, 03:10 PM

I dont get it - why would Astahost hand you a certificate? It never did to me - and I just checked my Firefox certificate cache and didn't find a single stored certificate other than Gmail.

As far as I know the certificates are used for encrypted communication (e.g. https) between the client and the web-server, like it happens when you log into Gmail. You login/password aren't transmitted in plaintext. Same happens when you buy stuff online - to prevent your credit card details from being transmitted as plaintext. These certificates have to be purchased at an annual licensing fee from certain trusted sources like Verisign, Thawte etc. who act as the escrow and vouch for the authenticity of your site to the clients.

To the best of my knowledge we never required any kind of secure transactions at Astahost - so I wonder from where this whole certificate issue is coming to be?? It's funny and alarming at the same time - or maybe it just due to bloody dumb old IE - who blindly assumes that every site must have a certificate.

I seriously dont know whats happening, it just keeps on saying the same thing over and over again, so I just installed that certificate be ....xisto.com (something like that). Now it does'nt seem to bother me much.

Hey, the same problem appears on Mozilla Firefox, just check you security settings and then get back as soon as possible.

Do you mean when logging in to your *Host* account?

If so, I get the same thing when logging in to CPanel. It is because Xisto's certificate is not in the default certificate chain ("Chain of Trust") for all web browsers. You did exactly the right thing: decide whether you trust it, and, if so, add the certificate to your browser's trusted list.

Okay, that is the problem. Thanks for enligtening me on this topic, but I would like to suggest to the admins that they make a post on some suitable forum on this topic just to alert all the hosted members of AstaHost and Trap17. I mean, most of them would be really confused on what to do, after hearing all the internet crime scandals, you just cant tell what will happen when you click on submit the next time. I mean, God should what information we will be sending. Just to avoid all such doubts I ask a admin, mod to please take this report seriously.

Yes, I started having this problem too when I switched to a top level domain. You access CPanel from your domain, but the certificate is not connected to it Don't worry about that

Its not the question of me not understanding the sercurity certificate, its that a newbie or a person who is obsessed with the safety of his computer wont understand the fact that the site he is visiting is safe. I have Micro$oft Windows Vista with Micro$oft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2, and they way when both of these softwares combine and show that you are visiting a site which has some kind of not appropriate certificate really frightens you out, a pop-up comes saying that its may be a scam site, Micro$oft Internet Explorer redirects to another page giving all sorts of reasons why you have been redirected.

This why I am pressing on this point that some one should take this matrer seriously and just imagine if one of those are a dum headed fool, who manages to mark AstaHost as a scam site, then what? In Micro$oft Internet Explorer you have an option to do that.

All this will lead only to confusion, reducing number of visitors to AstaHost and I dont know what else will happen.