creating and attaching an authorised certificate to an activex control

[J Navin]

Hi All,
can somebody help me, please...

I tried following steps.

makecert.exe /sv "myCer.pvk" /n "CN=Company name" myCer.cer
and
cert2spc.exe myCer.cer myCer.spc

I then associated this certificate to activex using signcode.exe

Now, if I try to download this control in win XP OS, browser(IE) shows me error "Windows has blocked this software because it can't verify the publisher." and in pblisher column it is showing "unknown publisher"

but is I tried the same in win2000, the warning dialog shows me "Company Name" as a publisher, but it gives the warning, "Warning: The authenticity of this content cannot be verified, therefore it cannot be trusted". Further it shows the problem "The test root has not been enabled as a trusted root".

The most important thing here is, I don't want the user to take the trouble of changing his browser's security settings, particularly, "Download unsigned activex controls".

Can anybody suggest me how can I build/get "authorised certificate" that the browser can trust upon.

Thanks in advance
-Navin

[PeejAvery]

Please do not post a problem more than once. You asked this problem in another forum and that will create many different responses. Please reply only to this thread.

How was this ActiveX control created? Did you write it yourself? Do you know what language it was created in?