Last Win7 patchday but important!
Yesterday the official support for Windows 7
ended and with it the official support for an
OS that served us well for over ten years. But
Microsoft delivered one last important patch!
Yesterday the official support for Windows 7
ended and with it the official support for an
OS that served us well for over ten years. But
Microsoft delivered one last important patch!
It appears as if Firefox has some problems with Addon installation
and activation. If your Firefox is Version 66.0.3 and older, you’ll find
most if not all of your addons being deactivated. Reason for this is
an expired SSL-certificate that is used by Firefox and mozilla.
If you recently updated your firefox, you might have experienced
problems with HTTPS sites. Main problem for the ominous
SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_USER problem are certificates from a
handful of virus scanners. Among them are Kaspersky and Avast.
We all know it: We launch our favourite browser and
suddenly after an update that darn thing is driving us
nuts with new error messages we haven’t seen before.
In this case it’s the SSL certificates.
TLS certificates indicating secure connections are
today’s gurantee that the site you’re visiting is
using secure connections or your transmitted data.
However it seems that not every TLS certificate…
As if things wouldn’t be grim enough when it comes to privacy
and security, this new case of fatal security breach is going to
mean big trouble not only for Lenovo and their security tool.
The reason is the infestation of the HTTPS-mechanism in common.