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My virus prog blocks a request from firefox to allow comet.yahoo.com because it's certificate is out of date what or who is comet

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foddy
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My virus prog is ESET Smart Security and each time I go onto my email account on Yahoo, when I have finished and signed out I get this message asking me to block or allow from Mozilla Comet.yahoo.com because its certificate is no longer valid. is it safe or not to allow this??

My virus prog is ESET Smart Security and each time I go onto my email account on Yahoo, when I have finished and signed out I get this message asking me to block or allow from Mozilla Comet.yahoo.com because its certificate is no longer valid. is it safe or not to allow this??

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hi, this looks like a fairly useless feature of your security software since browsers like firefox will refuse to load content from sites with expired certificates anyway - so it won't really make a difference whether you allow this in eset or not. ultimately it's up to yahoo to fix their site and renew their expired certificate...

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hi, this looks like a fairly useless feature of your security software since browsers like firefox will refuse to load content from sites with expired certificates anyway - so it won't really make a difference whether you allow this in eset or not. ultimately it's up to yahoo to fix their site and renew their expired certificate...

foddy
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Hi Philipp.. Many thanks for your reply, much appreciated. Foddy

cor-el
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Note that the https://comet.yahoo.com/ website works for me.

Subject C=US, ST=California, L=Sunnyvale, O=Yahoo Inc., OU=Information Technology, 
CN=comet.yahoo.com
Issuer 	C=US, O=Symantec Corporation, OU=Symantec Trust Network, CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4
Valid From 	Aug. 17, 2016, 5 p.m.
Valid To 	Aug. 19, 2017, 4:59 p.m.
Key Size 	2048 bits
Key Algorithm 	RSA
Sig. Algorithm 	sha256WithRSAEncryption
SANS 	comet.yahoo.com, bf1onepush.vip.bf1.yahoo.com, public.comet.vip.gq1.yahoo.com, ne1onepush.vip.ne1.yahoo.com, sg3onepush.vip.sg3.yahoo.com, public.comet.vip.ir2.yahoo.com
Serial Number 	54:07:E9:CB:F7:D1:CA:97:07:39:E5:46:08:8F:A7:9E (111696239685393737978369101328727123870)
SHA256 Fingerprint 	D1:EA:67:BA:EB:69:3E:D6:68:41:B9:5A:7D:7E:5D:D7:F3:42:B2:6B:DE:03:BB:0F:31:74:08:6F:A7:81:F2:9A
SHA1 Fingerprint 	1D:4F:7C:F0:3F:B8:37:14:0A:43:C2:F9:A2:67:31:7D:6F:B2:EE:B0
MD5 Fingerprint 	9D:31:15:AD:A8:A5:1D:66:58:DA:8D:D5:4B:D7:CC:18
Validation Type 	Organization Validation