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I have been using Duckduckgo for about a year. Yesterday, I began receiving an Untrusted Connection Warning when trying to access the site. There is no allowance for an exception. The only thing that I know has changed was the Avast database update yesterday. I have not received any other warnings associated with the Duckduckgo website, but I did receive warnings from Avast such as “Avast Web Shield has blocked access to this page because the following certificate is invalid: sni67555.cloudflaressl.com” and other similar warnings for other pages when I was searching the web for an answer to the problem. I did reinstall two DigiCert certificates (“Secure Server CA” and “Global Root CA”) as suggested for a similar problem that was addressed on the duck.co forum. That did not fix it. In the meantime, I also updated my OpenSSL installation to the latest version which I had no reason to believe was the problem. I’m still getting the “Untrusted Connection” warning. Any suggestions?
I’m using…
Firefox 40.0.3
Windows XP SP3
Pondus
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Try this
www.avast.com > support > get help > FAQ … Search for https … See how to turn it off
system
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So you are suggesting to simply turn off https scanning? The FAQ states that this makes the system more vulnerable. I have some questions before I do that.
- Although the FAQ states that “HTTPS scanning is not supported in Windows XP…”, what would cause the problem to appear this late.
- If https scanning is not actually functioning although it is checked as enabled, I don’t have a problem disabling. What has caused the problem to arise now even though https scanning has been enabled since I began using Avast on this WinXP machine a number of years ago… and will I be actually making myself more vulnerable by disabling it?
Pondus
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even though https scanning has been enabled since I began using Avast on this WinXP machine a number of years ago
eh ..no, https scanning was implemented in one of the latest versions/builds
system
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Okay. Understood. Thanks.
bob3160
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