Certificate for www.bing.com Invalid

I've had MSN as my homepage for several years. I have Google as my search engine but BING is so intrusive that it always shows up on the MSN homepage at the top. For the past couple weeks every time I open Safari to my homepage I get a popup box telling me the "Certificate for this website is invalid www.bing.com" and I have to click "cancel" or "continue" to use Safari.


How can I get this to stop popping up? I never use BING anyway, but it's never ben an issue till now. Can I somehow eliminate BING altogether?

MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Mar 22, 2014 9:36 AM

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Mar 22, 2014 12:09 PM in response to expc75

Back up all data.

Unlock the Network preference pane, if necessary, by clicking the lock icon in the lower left corner and entering your password. Cllck Advanced, open the DNS tab, and change the server addresses to the following:


8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4


That's Google DNS. Click OK, then Apply.


In Safari, select

Safari ▹ Preferences... Privacy Remove All Website Data

and confirm. If you’re using another browser, empty the cache. Test. Any difference?


Notes:


1. If you lose Internet access after making the above change to your network settings, delete the Google servers in the Network preference pane, then select the TCP/IP tab and click Renew DHCP Lease. That should restore the original DNS settings; otherwise restore them yourself. Remember that you must click Apply in order for any changes to take effect.


2. I don't use Google DNS myself, though I have tested it, and I'm not recommending it or any other DNS provider; the server addresses are offered merely for testing purposes. There may be privacy and technical issues involved in using that service, which you should investigate personally before you decide whether to keep the settings. Other public DNS services exist.

Mar 23, 2014 9:14 AM in response to Linc Davis

After lots of trial and error I believe I finally corrected this issue.


I emptied my cache

I deleted my history

I deleted the BING cookie

I deleted the MSN cookie

Restarted my Mac


Deleting the BING cookie alone was not enough. The MSN cookie also had plug-ins attached. When checking the new MSN cookie that appeared when my homepage fired up, the "plug-ins" part of that cookie had not returned.


Fingers crossed. Thanks for your thoughts on this.

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