Instant messenger and email help?

i installed im last night and it worked fine. but today it will not let me log onto my email and gives me a security certificate screen. i was in level 3 and do not want to lose my email address, any ideas and how can i contact yahoo online? thanks for your help.

Instant messenger and email help?
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This won't help you with your specific question (sorry) but my practice is to install software that I'm not familiar with on a "sandbox partition" and try it out before installing it on my main partition.





This "sandbox partition" on your computer can be relatively small ... about 4 - 8 gigs is adequate. This small size also speeds up the use of a utility like PowerQuest DriveImage to be able to replace this partiton with a "snap-shot" of a "clean install".





This practice is rather tedious, and is something to consider in the future ... there is plenty of disk space on relatively modern computers.





Especially for freeware or less well know software from no name vendors, I have a "test regimen" that includes:


* evaluate if it has a reasonably professional installation procedure .... huge red flag if "lumpy"


* huge red flag is uninstall is incomplete or removes user data file(s) that should be saved


* run several anti-spyware programs with their most recent signature updates (AVG, Adaware, and SpyBot have free versions)


* general suitability to what you have in mind doing





I'm not a fan of "System Restore", but an easier option is to make a "before snapshot" before installing any unfamiliar software.





Note that this "test regimen" can mess up registering the software, especially for commercial software. You may have "used up" the registration and be unable to do a real install ... but this is a good way to find out that you will have problems if and when you get a new computer.

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