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their data. You can check the validity of the site certificate by clicking on the locked
padlock, but clever malicious hackers know how to create a fake padlock that
appears to provide valid site certificate data. A more reliable way to verify a
certificate is to view the webpage's Page info in Mozilla or, in Internet Explorer, to
right click on the webpage and select E.roperties to see, first, the general information
about the page security and then, by clicking on Certificates, the actual certificate
information such as from the PayPal website:
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