Thanks everyone for your input.
Bottom line: should I delete all of the untrusted and fraudulent certificates or only specific ones?
Thank you.
Hi ehmen,
Tho you may not care for Eddy's advice, be mindful of what you do. The certificate listing is a list Windows uses to prevent potential harm to your computer. This list is sometimes updated by Microsoft in one of their periodic Windows Updates called 'root certificates'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_certificate The difference between any user that knows what they are doing and the ones that don't, basically is the difference between fixing something that needs to be fixed and not fixing things that don't.
So the fine line between fixing things one wants to fix must be tempered with an acute and accurate assessment over what, if anything, needs to be fixed at all. Just because one has control over a system does not mean that one should fix things just because they can.
Not without first imaging their system disk in case disaster strikes. If an image is created first, one can do whatever they want and recover. If one wants to experiment, then imaging is a
must do.
Again, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Learning something new is a good thing, but it must be tempered with research and caution and restraint.
If one always follows these three conditions, one can come to the best and correct decisions, and one does not have to then fix a system they broke unnecessarily. Nothing wrong with learning new stuff, it is when to apply that new knowledge, and to what degree, that will make the difference long-term for all users, not just you.