Weird Boot/Running/Internet Happenings

[Sir Topham Hatt]

I have something weird going on.

I "Slept" my computer, but for some reason, it didn't sleep properly and when looking on the screen, it asked me to run setup to recover the boot settings, or load using the norla settings. Windows wouldn't boot peoperly and told me it could start again or try (again) to load the sleep data.

I told Windows to boot again form scratch and now when going to all my favourite websites with an account, all of them are signed out, almost like all my cookies have been deleted. Now I have a floppy drive in "My Computer" even though the actual computer doesn't have a floppy drive? (I may have disabled it in BIOS and now it's magically re-enabled.)

Now, when I log onto the internet, something like GMail, Firefox is telling me that the connection is un-trusted? Hotmail and a few others are the same.

www.google.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate has expired.

The certificate expired on 27/03/2010 10:20 PM.

(Error code: sec_error_expired_issuer_certificate)

I have also just noticed my time/date, my computer thinks it is 2099!

Is there something I can do to make sure I am safe?

NOD32 doesn't show anything is wrong.

Thanks

Edited November 21, 2009 by Mr Spoon

[O.G]

The problem with the certs is probably due to the incorrect system date. As for the cookies, I've experiencesd this also as a result of an improper shut down, so I'm guessing it's either a cache thing or a security thing or both.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

I don't think it's a security issue anymore.

When sleeping, there was obviously some sort of error which messed it all up, so I simply turned the power off manually on the PSU. I guess this resulted in the loss of settings, then when resetting a few things; the date changed, as you say, invalidating the security certs.

All seems fixed now though :)