Can you solve my problem with my www.johnfosterstories.com web address ?

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  johnfosterstories · Member · May 16, 2012 at 12:00 am

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  internet security blocks my site with this message: “You attempted to reach http://www.johnfosterstories.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.wordpress.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of http://www.johnfosterstories.com.”
  Blog url: http://johnfosterstories.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 16, 2012 at 12:06 am

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  That’s actually quite normal. Rather, it’s a misguided warning more than anything, and only you will see it when logged in.

  When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.

  When you connect to your Dashboard via your own domain but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.

  Most security systems like this should have a way to add a permanent exception so you will never see the warning again in this instance.

  Please let us know if you have any more questions!