All certificates in my IE6 are red,damaged or corrupted. What now?

[Lars]

No HTTPS sites will work because on all certificates it says "damaged
or corrupted".
Is there anyway I can remove them all and reload as initially
installed?
someone said a registry setting to trick IE into believing it was old
and would upgrade itself.

(I have win98 and IE6 with latest update in place)

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Lars" said in news:[email protected]:

No HTTPS sites will work because on all certificates it says "damaged
or corrupted".
Is there anyway I can remove them all and reload as initially
installed?
someone said a registry setting to trick IE into believing it was old
and would upgrade itself.

(I have win98 and IE6 with latest update in place)

Under Internet Options -> Content -> Certificates, under which tab are
all the certificates marked bad? Yours (personal)? Other people? Who?
All certificates under every tab?

If they are your certificates or those for Other People, why not just
delete them? You can re-download yours and reinstall them. For others,
save their certificates when they next send you a digitally signed or
encrypted e-mail.

 

[Lars]

thanks for info.

The certificates with problems are the ones preinstalled, under
"Trusted Root Certificates Authoreties". Verisign and all those.

I have no I installed myself og got sendt in email.

Is I delete all these how do I get them back?

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Lars" said in news:[email protected]:

thanks for info.

The certificates with problems are the ones preinstalled, under
"Trusted Root Certificates Authoreties". Verisign and all those.

I have no I installed myself og got sendt in email.

Is I delete all these how do I get them back?

After about 10 minutes, I gave up searching at Microsoft and Google. I
didn't find a definitive answer on how to replace or reinstall the CA
certificates. About the only applicable article mentioned exporting the
certificate and then deleting it (so you could then import that
certificate again).

I also looked at the properties for some of the CA certs. Not one had a
path listed of where to obtain their cert. A few had the button enabled
to looked at the cert issuer's statement that would then take you to
their web site but I gave up hunting around their web sites trying to
find where to download their cert.

If the export, remove, and import of a CA cert doesn't work (pick one
that you're not likely to need) then next to try might be to reinstall
IE.