Internet Issues - Need Help :)

[Guy]

Hi folks,

Not often I need help with PC stuff, but this one has me stumped. Basically someone was using my Vista laptop and tried to install some printer drivers. The install failed and since then I have not been able to access any websites. Various things do still work such as Messenger and Skype, but web pages and the WoW client will stubbornly refuse to load. The error message that I recieve is as follows:

There is a problem with this website's security certificate.


The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.
We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website.
Click here to close this webpage.

Additional info is:

If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.
When going to a website with an address such as https://example.com, try adding the 'www' to the address, https://www.example.com.
If you choose to ignore this error and continue, do not enter private information into the website.

It's worth mentioning that this is not over my own Wi-Fi network; it's over a publically shared one using the FON network in Paris.

Given that some applications seem to be able to get through to the internet but others don't, I would have thought that it was something based around user permissions or Norton's firewall, but I haven't been able to find anything at all that will make the s*dding thing work.

Any ideas? At all? Please? Pretty please?

 

[Gottaa]

WoW as I remember uses I.E settings, so I'd say the thing to do is fix I.E, there though I can't help, I get the same poo in I.E when I connect to our internal company website, though in Firefox it works fine.

In all serious-ness unless you need Vista I'd suggest downgrading (free if you have ultimate or business level with a phone call to MS). The more I try and use Vista seriously the more I get to hate it

 

[Zed]

Your SSL certs are essentially fuxxord. You could just try adding the websites you want to visit to the trusted sites section of your browser. Or try firefox see if that fixes it sincei m assuming your an internet exploder user.

this might have somehting that will help:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...t+website's+address.&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

theres some references to a bug in Vista and the way it handles SSL certs.

 

[Guy]

Actually it's knackered across IE and Firefox...

 

[Chick]

Sounds like someone's performing a man-in the middle attack via the shared network, or soem kind of dns-spoofing or similar. basically, Public Networks != secure. period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_middle

it's difficult to trace and check too. I'd certainly stop using anythign that involves bank / work / vpn's untill you can confirm or deny it.

What sites are you getting the error from ?

 

[Rochdale]

format, install XP

 

[Althorn]

Wot Roch said.

Most websites don't use certs unless they use SSL - so that deffo sounds "iffy"

 

[Chick]

The only other thing i can think of is that the FON network itself, or the node you are conencting too, is either broken or been rooted.

Do you know any more about how it works. If it's a SSL-VPN then it's possibly just a fuckup at their end.

 

[MorgyN]

Agree with Chick, man in the middle.

 

[Guy]

Sounds like someone's performing a man-in the middle attack via the shared network, or soem kind of dns-spoofing or similar. basically, Public Networks != secure. period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_middle

it's difficult to trace and check too. I'd certainly stop using anythign that involves bank / work / vpn's untill you can confirm or deny it.

What sites are you getting the error from ?

Any site at all, as it happens mate. I've asked someone to go to a different network and try a totally different WiFi provider; will let you know how I get on.

Also, I've been endlessly trawling sites to find a solution to this, and it seems the error used to be caused by an incorrect date/time on Vista, but that's not the case here.

 

[Chick]

Sounds like the ssl public network is fuxored. Stupid question time: have you contacted the support people for the network you are using?

 

[Brutus]

There is one other way to de-fuxxor it.

You will have a couple of connections in your networking bit. One will be named after your network, home for example, the other will have some helpful name like Ethernet Connection X.

Close the X connection and wait a minute then fire it up, it seems to make it remember certain SSL pn settings and such. Why? No idea, blame miscroshaft but I suspect it comes down to the OS. In other words the printer drivers may have some form of auto update within them (embedded, aren't they nice?) which could trip the kernel protection and potentially bollox your connection by leaping on anything outgoing. Try it, it might help as the kernel protection is a complete ball ache.

There is some software/hardware auditing software I use at work that vist rather politely asks the user to run, you run it and the kernal protection steps in and covers it in petrol politely lighting it on the way out.

 

[Guy]

Ok will try that, thanks mate.

As an update note, i tried it on a different WiFi network, and all seems fine, so I'm thinking it's more likely to be an issue with the FON network we use at home by the sounds of it.

 

[Ky]

I dunno about the rest of you, but I think Guy not benig on the internet is probably good for humanity and especially good for anyone that might have had the misfortune to group with him in WoW.

 

[Git]

he's a goat molesting cunt, so he doesn't need the interwebz for that! BANHIMZORSZZZ!!!!!!

and I can't help as I have no idea what your on about ;-)