Now that I'm (finally) retired and able to spend several months in the
Sunshine State, I sprung for a new Dell computer for the outpost. From
past experience with Dell products, their software packages (OS plus
extras) are pretty well sorted.
So, some background. The computer came with a free subscription to
McAfee Live Safe, so I thought all would be well. In short, however,
the set up has been nothing but a frustration (some related to 8.1, but
that's not the issue). I installed Chrome only to find web pages with
adverts would pop up at almost every click (that's what it seemed like).
So, I installed Firefox, which has turned out to be much better behaved.
The principal irritant is that every time I click on a site using the
https protocol, I get a message that " You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to xxx.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is
secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present
trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place.
However, this site's identity can't be verified.the connection is
untrusted and the certificate." I get similar messages from IE stating
that "The security certificate presented by this website was not issued
by a trusted certificate authority." Clearly, the issue is browser
independent.
Even when I ask to allow a (permanent) exception the same situation
occurs when I next access the site. It's got to the point that all sites
requiring a login generate this message. For some, such as Yahoo, I am
not even allowed to create an exception, so I cannot even login. Other
weirdness includes an inability to load photos from Flikr (nor login in)
and in some other newsgroups.
What is strange is that I'm visiting sites that I was (or am) able to
access without any such problems at work (Chrome+Win7+McAfee), home
(Firefox+WinXP+Norton Internet Security) and here (Safari+Ipad).
Options seem to be:
1) disable McAfee (I cannot find any settings to change, though it's
apparently managing the Windows firewall)
2) temporarily use just the Windows firewall (no virus protection)
3) install Norton (I believe I can piggy back on my existing licence).
What am I missing? Grateful for any advice or guidance from the computer
literate on the list.
Martin
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