Error message "Revocation information for the security certificate for this site is not available. Do you want to proceed? [Yes] [No] [View certificate]

Anonymous
2010-04-24T21:13:04+00:00

For some time I have been receiving the dialog box containing "Security Alert 'Revocation information for the security certificate for this site is not available. Do you want to proceed? [Yes] [No] [View certificate]' ." I know that many, if not all, of the sites are OK as I have used them multiple times in the past.

I have tried various "fixes" found by Googling "revocation information" and nothing fixes the problem--what ever it is.

When I try to do various updates, not related to this problem, I am not allow to download the updates because of a security problem.

Any suggestions for a computer challenged user? Thanks.

Richard

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T13:58:20+00:00

    Whoops, so it is! I came to it from a Google search for the error message, neglected to notice the small print! :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T13:49:53+00:00

    OK, will check back, however if the above suggestions do not work, I suggest you post in the Windows 7 forum, link is below, this is the XP forum. :)

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security?tab=unanswered&tm=1361281712640

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T12:00:30+00:00

    Hi Elizabeth, thanks for the reply.

    I'll follow your suggestions - I had tried the things suggested in the brighthub article, but to no avial (I also find that most of these articles are more relating to the message popping up on opening a secure page, whereas ours happens every boot).

    Interestingly, this is happening on most (if not all) of our Windows 7 machines, and also on our Terminal Server sessions running on an externally hosted Windows Server 2008 - both scenarios have very different programs running at startup, so it's strange there is something like this happening.

    I'll let you know how I get on!

    Cheers

    acra

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T08:54:32+00:00

    Not really, because in my case I like security.

    Disabling these checks leaves you wide open to attack - which is bad enough for home users who bank online etc, but worse so for businesses - of which many in this thread are!

    Has anybody found a fix?

    EDIT: as in, one that stops the constant error-on-startup but keeps the security in place.

    At my work, I'm getting this problem on every login, yet at home running the same level of security I don't get it at all.

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