Certificate error in Crystal Reports - crystal-reports

After the last upgrade of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, every time I open the report in design view I'm getting multiple certificate errors (see picture below). The errors comes from the SAP web site productupdates.sap.com, which indeed has certificate expired. But I cannot find any references to this site in my project. How to get rid of them? This doesn't happen on all computers, only on mine.
Posted this question in SAP forum - no answer.
Thank you.

https://productupdates.sap.com/ is expired.
See whether Crystal Reports->Check for Updates on Start Up is checked
Turning it off and re-opening the solution appears to stop the continuous certificate security alerts.

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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102429
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In the past, I just created a new test certificate, and used that. This essentially "buys" me another year until I have to do this all over again. I would like to correctly sign a new certificate that is good for X number of years (or never expires).
I have done some research, but as I am unfamiliar with this whole scenario, the nomenclature is extremely confusing. I can follow instructions, but only if they are written in a manner that an intermediate user can understand. Is there a reference that explains this process step by step, hopefully with screenshots? I can't believe with all my looking around I haven't found this already, so I must not be looking up the relevant keywords.
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