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Hi,
My anti virus software threw up the following:
Suspicious connection blocked
15 hours ago
MicrosoftEdge.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an expired certificate to markets.books.microsoft.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since web pages must renew their certificates with a certification authority to stay current, and outdated security certificates represent a risk.
Roger
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When it's fixed my Bitdefender will quit blocking it. Apparently it's a useless Microsoft file that is not needed or my computer would malfunction with it blocked. If your getting pop-ups, maybe get an anti-virus software like Bitdefender that works in the background without all of the annoying pop-ups.
Lol I have been getting this message for the past 6 - 10 months so as far as I'm concerned the certificate expiring on 6 Nov is a farce. Bitdefender and Trojan Killer have been blocking this action for a very long time on all my computers.
Lol I have been getting this message for the past 6 - 10 months so as far as I'm concerned the certificate expiring on 6 Nov is a farce. Bitdefender and Trojan Killer have been blocking this action for a very long time on all my computers.
But why is Microsoft using an outdated site certificate and asking us to ignore the risk to security presented, which would make the certificate system meaningless on a broad scale. Are they overworked? indifferent? or brewing the notion that everything Microsoft is supposed to be accepted?
I have had the same problem. If it takes Microsoft months to fix the issue then time to use another browser (Firefox) that doesn't try to link over to this expired site. The bigger question is why does the browser even try to pull up the site in the first place.
Hello Roger, i'm Timon and i'm glad to help you.
As stated in the message, the website certificate has expired (on November 6) so your browser blocked the connection.
You may ignore this message and this misconfiguration will probably be fixed by microsoft promptly.
Hey Jimmy. I've been getting this message for over 3 months now and its still happening. So when will Microsoft fix it?? Its alright to say just ignore it but it needs to be fixed so it doesn't keep happening.
