I can't seem to turn off the Windows Firewall becuase it is "being managed by vendor application McAfee Personal Firewall," which I am pretty darned sure I have turned off. As far as I know, I don'tg have any antivirus software other than McAfee installed.
Sorry that you are having problems
Hopefully this information from MS may help.
You cannot log in to or connect to secured Web sites in Internet Explorer
Here is another,
There are a lot of suggetions, I am hopeful at least one will work.
Solved: Cannot access secure sites on Internet - Tech Support Guy Forums
makes more sense now. Disable its startup function by going to : start / run / type: msconfig / startup tab. find mcafee related items and un-check their related box. Reboot then try your secure site again. If this still doesn't work, disable your windows firewall and do the same.
I disabled the McAfee startup functions but when trying to disable the Windows firewall, it still says that McAfee is managing it. I have to go out to a dinner engagement now, damn it! But please don't give up on me. Keep those ideas coming in! Should I delete McAfee altogether?
Not only because of this problem, but dump Mcafee and get MSE in combination with Malwarebytes. You will save a lot of money, too.
Sorry, getting so use to using abbreviations for speed.
Microsoft Security Essentials.
If you are interested, I will get you the links.
OK I can only get one link at a time. This is a work in progress LOL
Heres, the first.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
I have suggest this for months, but I just downloaded for myself, recently and guess what I found malware; not found by any A/V or Windows Defender. The software gives a choice isolate or remove. I removed.
Here is Microsoft Security Essentials. Most agree. Although I think you had one poster who suggested other than malwarebbytes.
http://www.microsoft.com/security_es...aspx?mkt=en-us
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