Re: [tlug] Sudden Certificates Problem

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

On 3/25/2008 12:43 PM, CL wrote:
> At the same time I upgraded Xubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 on my 64-bit box, I
> began having a lot of trouble with sites I'd been visiting regularly
> being blocked by Firefox.  The usual message is that the site security
> certificates have expired ... with a warning that my connection may have
> been taken over.  There are quite a lot of them, particularly offshore
> ones including Yahoo and Google.
>
> I am experiencing the same issue in the WIN version of Firefox running
> in a VirtualBox on the same hardware.


Your computer's clock is incorrectly set according to the email header.  
I believe that could cause such expiration errors.

> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:43:52 +0900

That would also affect virtualized guests unless they receive their time 
from another source.

--Kyle