How do you tell a non-trusted site from a trusted?

[JohnS.]

Okay so I pay all of my loans online. I went to log into one of my school loans to make a payment and FireFox gave me this page:

What the hell? Has anyone ever run into this before? I'm not continuing....

 

[Mr. Jollypants]

Whats the website?

Usually this error is caused by an expired secure certificate, or one that Firefox doesn't know.

 

[JohnS.]

I dunno why I whited it out lol.

aessuccess.org

 

[Mr. Jollypants]

I would tell it you know the risks. It's a correct certificate.

 

[JohnS.]

That's what I thought... I've been paying this for a while now. I don't get why it'd just turn out of the blue.

Thanks. Feel free to close this if you wish.

 

[Mr. Jollypants]

It probably turned up out of no where because their certificate expired and Network Solutions (Who does the SSL) hasn't updated it yet, or aesuccess.com has forgotten to pay for the certificate

 

[Matt.]

I don't care about that s**t usually, its mostly just BS warning that you know about anyways if you typed in the site anyways. But whats it gonna do to me anyways? I'm on a mac, the worst I get is adware.

 

[Matt.]

whoa, what the f***? We have censors now? s*** f***ing seriously? You b****es ass bastards! Well... I think I figured out the limits.