I am having problems displaying this page (https://avast.forum.com/index.php …) in my computer running Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 10 (no problems, however, displaying page with Chrome nor with IE 11 and Windows 8.1 before I upgraded to Windows 10). I get a message saying that there is a problem with the security certificate (exact message is below). I have done the following: (1) pasted the website address into Trusted Site under Tools in IE 11, (2) ensured that my computer’s date and time are correct, and (3) added www before forum.avast.com as suggested by IE 11 error message. None of those helped. Thus I suspect there may be a real issue with the security certificate specifically on Avast’s forum page as I am able to open the general https://www.avast.com/en-ca/index page without any problems. Anyone else with this strange problem?
Here is the exact message from IE 11 (note that it did not even give me the option to proceed to website, not recommended, as usually occurs under Win 7, for example, but only the option to close the page):
There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.
The security certificate presented by this website is not secure.
Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.
We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website.
Recommended iconClick here to close this webpage.
Not recommended icon (Note: I do not see this line at all so am not sure why it appeared here when i copied the message)
More information More information
•If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.
•When going to a website with an address such as https://example.com, try adding the ‘www’ to the address, https://www.example.com.
For more information, see “Certificate Errors” in Internet Explorer Help.
Thanks to all who responded, especially Eddy, Essexboy and DavidR. I am running Avast 2261 with IE 11 and Windows 10. The issue seems to afftect only certain https websites, however, I can still open these affected ones with Chrome without any problem on the same computer (strange). I have tried putting the affected URLs into the Exclusions list of Avast (Settings, Webshielld, etc.) as per: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/stop-avast-blocking-websites-54917.html. Doesn’t work (note: also tried putting affected URLs into Trusted site in IE 11 simultaneously with exclusion in Avast).
I have not yet tried disabling https scanning entirely by unchecking https scanning as: (1) it does not seem to be a problem for many other https websites, and (2) one of my important https website which I use frequently is behaving erratically … it is opening again but it had failed to open (with same security cert. message) after I had played around with putting the URLs into the exclusion list. Thus I am paranoid about unchecking and rechecking https scanning in case it affects some of my other important https websites which are currently opening in IE 11.
I note that DavidR posted that issue is resolved in Avast ver. 2262. Perhaps I will used Chrome for the afftected sites until I update to 2262. Or I give in and uncheck https scanning and accept the lowered security.
