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This look like the solution. after the ?v= put 49PY6XJzUig next to the = to play the video on you tube I had a suspicion that this would work but did not know how to move the certs from one pc to another. Now I know. Will try this real soon now. I

understood but what about the others ??

thanks i was referring to only the mbam products i see several that seem complementary on the site here

98se ( but never on the internet) xpprosp3 8.1 10 soon hopefully ubunto distro of linux

That is what I had thought but they already have the email. I guess they might get more if they could prove it is currently in use.

thanks I thought my mbam did that antivirus stuff too. would be nice if there were an explicit list of all the items that one needs and whether they run all the time or else when they should be run one off

So do you not have an antivirus program that we should run all the time?

Getting many messages that someone is trying to change my password on outlook or on FB. All they say is to click on yes it was me or no that it was someone was trying to hack the account. Checking the actual from and return address shows that they are clearly not from MS or FB. EG mispelling like 0 for O or an extra letter like S added where it could be missed as part of the real name. But if one answered such an email, just what could be their advantage except to know that the email exists and is active. I get SO many spam and phishing messages anyway does it really help them enough to know that a specific one is active/ Seems like more work than it is worth. Ideas about what this is really being done for ?

Thanks for the additional links. Do not recall all of the ones I had tried. One was firefox or foxfire which had worked great until an update to it forked it and my machine's ability (or at least mine:) to download the old one again. Looked at a couple of others and either they failed or I did not like them enough to get them installed as I had gotten chrome to work just fine for many years after firefox/foxfire self imploded on that update. If it were not for their stop regenerating certificates in the XP version I would use it till the hardware died.

update failed on other sites. so I did something else that I forgot about when it worked or there is more to this than is clear to me. what I do know is that i will NOT use win10 or 11 , ever. For now win81 still works although I hate that one too. Guess that I will have to bite the bullet and install ubuntu instead of thinking about it.

@Sniktbub Thanks. I will check that link out. I had tried to find ways to update root certs but have not gotten far enough to do that yet. Yes some certs seem to be slowly expiring and causing problems. Looking at my certificates many are still good and so far both email clients are working which is the main online use for this old PC. I would use any browser if I could be sure it would work right. Hopefully is not a real pain and barely useful like some. I have tried others but they would not install AND RUN on XP.

well i bit the bullet and took a chance with a site that i trust and also based on belief that the error message is coming from chrome not a virus. at least i did not see any ransomware like actions next. and i had scrubbed the system with mbam before doing it. will now be doing another scrub to see if anything new shows up after clicking on the clock fix icon. aaamazingly after i reset the clock with the icon given, and then reloaded the page i actually saw it. now i have to figure if it is worth the risk of doing that on every site that has the same problem. so i guess if the IT weenies error message were wrong about the clock it could have fixed the certificate. do they still code in basic?? so just let clock = certificate ??

agree that is why i bought a newer version i had bought an old one long ago for future use when i got to doing it but when i did get to try it then it failed and looking on line that release was not listed so last year i did get another one at a local computer store held off using it as i researched for something that might be better then life happened as usual and i got sidetracked so it is still on the to do list afaik my system had all of those requirements and still does

as to the clock - why cant the coding hackers give a meaningful error message. my clock is absolutely correct. better than so many other sites i visit and also timestamped on emails i get. if they had just said my certificate had expired then i would have saved a lot of angst.

understood and mostly agree i still use 98se because it has an ap i use that does not run on later systems. it also runs rings around the xp because it is totally air gapped and i ripped all the security software out of it. i would still be using 95 if i could have changed that battery but it was buried too deep and soldered in so i gave up on that system. i prefer xp because i know it and it is far easier to use than 8.1 or 10. i am just bleeping tired of constantly having to learn new opsys and how they do things. i do not feel afraid of using xp. i do have mbam which is a help. and there is nothing on it that i could lose that really matters. my data is backed up. there is no financial or similar info on it. and these days xp is not really targeted like some other versions are. and i do have mbam so i am careful about ransomware phishing as mbam does not do that for xp. besides the learning curve there is the time and expense of buying new software to use and then learning the new way a word processor for EG works vs word 97. like I said, if i am forced to do something it will be to use a linux distro. first ap would be libre office for word processing. then a browser. and of course mbam. actually two linuces - one large desktop totally airgapped for wp speed, audio DAW, and financial info security. the other a smaller box with mbam and limited to surfing which includes email using hotmail. also my current pop3 email client unless they finally stop supporting that at my isp. as to macrium reflect. i had bought it. when i finally went to use it total fail and that version not even listed on their web site. recently i bought a more recent copy of macrium. will that be DOA again when i finally get to try it?