I have recently upgraded to windows 10 and I reset firefox today as I was having problems accessing another site for some reason, this reset fixed the other site but now I am getting this message when trying to load another website which had no issues previously.
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to iptorrents.com. Peer’s certificate has an invalid signature. (Error code: sec_error_bad_signature)
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
The site loads fine from IE and Chrome browsers so I googled and a brief search brought up something to do with the latest Firefox 33 no longer supports keys less than 1024 bits?
I have tried a number of fixes to the security values in firefox but none of them have worked so far.
On further investigation it appears that AVAST was causing the issue somehow (I am not that technically savvy). I followed the instructions below and now the problem is solved but I am concerned that I have reduced my security by doing this.
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Open the Avast dashboard on the affected system.
Select Settings from the left sidebar menu.
Switch to Active Protection.
Click on Customize next to Web Shield.
Uncheck the “Enable HTTPS Scanning” option and click ok.
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So is this a fault with firefox or AVAST and should I be overly concerned with the “fix”?
Yes this is a direction/fix some are suggesting that seems to solve the specific issue…
As far as reducing your securitiy, you should be fine.
I’m hoping that the permanent fix to the issue comes soon.
I’m sure others will chime in and provide more information too consider.
Even if I try to run web shield in any format it slows to a crawl and sends an alert message up blocking almost any page I look at - including this forum! So I’m running web shield turned off and I can’t get file shield to work at all despite 2 installs. I wish I had never upgraded to the new version.
If I run in silent/gaming mode I can speedtest at 50+mbps but if I go back to normal mode it runs around 20. Turn on webshield and forget it - it’s quicker to send a letter.
I’m guessing that gaming mode is a no no for regular web surfing?
I am currently using 40.0.03, I should have qualified that in the previous post as the text above was partially taken from an online post, I just assumed that the latest version also had the same format, ie: 1024 bits.
