Getting endless notification

PhilE

Im getting this endless notification

Feature:

Online Threat Prevention

chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an expired certificate to getexperiment.ru. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since websites must renew their certificates with a certification authority to stay current, and outdated security certificates represent a risk.

Is someone trying to hack me? I have BD + Malware Bytes + VPN am I safe or will this eventually get through?

Scott

Hi @PhilE

Did you try the 1st part of this post by Alexandru as was previously submitted by Gjoksi79_? In this case, for your Chrome browser.

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/308480#Comment_308480

"If you do not visit the website and you still receive these notifications, then your browser connects to it either through allowed notifications or toolbars/extensions. I suggest that you clear the cache & cookies, remove any unused/unknown extensions and if the issues persist, reset your browser. You can find these steps here:"

Scott

KinNC

Bombarded with frequent notification in the past few days:

"chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an expired certificate to wpad"

What does this mean? Is it a threat, or something benign? Is it significant that chrome triggers this, but Firefox does not?

Any advice would be very much appreciated!

Flexx

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/319243#Comment_319243

Check if below steps helps you in any way.

1) Restart PC in safe mode: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode-in-windows-92c27cff-db89-8644-1ce4-b3e5e56fe234

2) Open run command and run below command one by one:

temp ,delete all the files in the folder

%temp% ,delete all the files in folder

prefetch ,delete all the files in folder

3) Restart your PC in general mode by unticking the option that you selected to run the system in safe mode and then click apply.

4) Reset your Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en

Regards

Alexandru_BD

Hi @KinNC,

On this topic, check my response on this thread as well:

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/319231#Comment_319231

I hope the information is helpful.

Regards