Can't visit secure sites - I suspect Windows Update (Vanity)

my fertile brain ^ | 1/14/03 | the non-secure Warrior Princess

[savedbygrace]

Love your tag. LOL.

[The_Victor]

the non-secure Warrior Princess

Should this be the insecure Warrior Princess?

Please don't hurt me

You might look at your custom security options under intenet options for IE. I'm not experienceing any trouble with secure sites. So far this morning. I'll go check and report back, your Highness.

[Cultural Jihad]

Yes, that seems right. Wish I knew more about networking to be more helpful.

[Timesink]

God is trying to tell you not to view Weebl porn.

[Xenalyte]

How did you know?!?!?

[general_re]

Weeble porn?

(cue wocka-wocka music)

:^)

[humblegunner]

Are you logged on?

[Timesink]

How did you know?!?!?

That lusty look in your eye.

And the fact that you keep muttering "badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers mushroom mushroom badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers auugh snake snake it's a snaaaake badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers" to yourself over and over.

[Xenalyte]

Oh, dear. You ARE on to me. Time to close the curtains and sweep for bugs!

[Xenalyte]

The moose told me he'd take care of that for me while I was in the shower.

[Timesink]

Can I at least keep the videotapes, Paris?

[rightisright]

Could be the sites you are attempting to access have not updated their Verisign Intermediate Root CA?

http://www.verisign.com/support/vendors/exp-gsid-ssl.html

Expired on 1/7/04

[Xenalyte]

As long as you don't retransmit without my express permission.

[Xenalyte]

Probably not, since I can get to them from work just fine. Xena's Guy says it's IE, and it is skrewd.

[js1138]

Of course, this was last week on dial-up; we got cable over the weekend, which may or may not change anything.

This is the key to your problem. I spent weeks with a problem like this after installing a firewall/router on my DSL line. You have a firewall/router conflict. I can't supply a solution, but I can tell you that in my case I had a DSL modem and a separate router box. The DSL modem had to be set to "bridge" mode in order to work with the router.

You need to call and keep calling the cable company until you get someone that can fix the problem.

My son had a similar problem with cable, and they solved it by replacing the cable modem.

[Xenalyte]

It's been going on since August, when we had DSL. It continued through our ditching of DSL and our return to dial-up, and it persists with cable, which is what makes us think it's an IE problem.

[Prysson]

I actually had the same problem on one of my pc's at work.

the url for the fix is here

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813444


Specifically I had to re-register the dll's you will find a list and process to follow about two thirds of the way down the page.

Hope it helps.

[js1138]

It's still a firewall problem. HTTP and HTTPS use different ports. I don't know what kind of hardware you have or exactly how to fix it in your case, but I would sit on the cable company. Play dumb. Just tell the cable company that their modem isn't working. Make them come out and fix it.

[KellyAdmirer]

Sounds like your port 443 is being blocked.

It might be an IE problem. First thing to check is to go in your browser to Tools/Internet Options/Advanced and make sure that both "Use SSL 2.0" and "Use SSL 3.0" are checked.

If you have any firewalls going, disable them.

Problems like this are frustrating. Sometimes they just go away, but if you've had it since August, doesn't sound likely.

Are you still using the same ISP you have had since then? It could be blocking the port.

Good luck with this.

[js1138]

Ouch. The old blow everything away one atom at a time approach. Since Xen says he's reinstalled Windows, I am dubious about this. Interesting note about the encryption level, though.