Odd statement on screen

[raymondo150]

Has anyone else come across this statement on screen before. I fail to understand its purpose, apart from some security I suppose?

""

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.paypal.com. You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information: Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority. Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number. (Error code: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.""

[Allmessedup]

Browser or Internet connection issue I guess.

[HBKen]

I had exactly the same problem after upgrading to Firefos V34.  Apparently this is caused in Firefox by protection against POODLE - see the following link.   

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/10/14/the-poodle-attack-and-the-end-of-ssl-3-0/

Safari (I use a MAC) works OK which is how I am posting this.

Has anyone have any information about this problem and how to overcome it; cannot find any technical support on the main Paypal website.