Suspicious Connection Blocked
I have Bitdefender total security and several times per minute for hours per day I get messages that firefox is trying to connect to an untrusted source and I'm wondering if you can help me get it to stop. It seems to happen primarily when I am using NordVPN with a United States IP address.
This is the message I continue to get from Bitdefender:
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an untrusted certificate to trends.newsmaxwidget.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since untrusted certificates are issued by unrecognized Certificate Authorities.
I don't know what this trends.newsmaxwidget.com certificate is or where to find it to delete it. Can it be deleted? Is this a problem with my VPN?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Alle svar (1)
A certificate check on Qualys shows no problem with the certificate. The website is hosted on Amazon AWS servers (EC2), so maybe that is what makes it suspicious.
- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=trends.newsmaxwidget.com&s=52.200.45.184&latest
- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=trends.newsmaxwidget.com&latest
You will have to contact Bitdefender and ask them why they think this site is suspicious.