Sometimes, and quite often, users when they try to log in to a specific Internet resource receive a message that an error occurred while establishing a secure connection. How to fix such a glitch will now be considered. Depending on the current situation, you can use several different techniques.
What does it mean: “Error establishing a secure connection”?
First of all, the problem of such a failure should be clearly understood. The essence of the error lies in the fact that the system, when accessing a particular site, needs to verify the SSL certificate used to connect to HTTPS in order to establish the identity of the publisher.
However, it is possible to clearly identify several situations when such a check gives a negative result, as a result of which a message appears that an error occurred while establishing a secure connection:
- mismatch of the date and time on the computer with Internet parameters;
- Obsolete or expired certificate
- Certificate with an invalid serial number
- OCSP server errors
- incorrect browser settings (most often Mozilla Firefox);
- blocking by the antivirus.
Consider a few typical situations.
Error establishing a secure connection: how to clean it in the simplest way?
Let's start with the most primitive way to troubleshoot a problem. As mentioned above, the time installed on the computer may not match the Internet settings. Therefore, these settings need to be changed.
Some users try to set the date and time directly in Windows, this does not give the desired result, and the error when establishing a secure connection appears again. Why? Yes, only because the configuration needs to be done in the primary BIOS I / O system. Then something else you can count on.
Disabling SSL and installing a certificate in antivirus
Antiviruses, in comparison with a firewall or Windows defender, are much more inclined to block such connections, considering the connection invalid.
A solution to the problem can be either a temporary shutdown of protection, which is not very convenient, or the setting of appropriate parameters. Typically, this section is located in the network settings. Here you need to disable SSL verification, and then use the "Certificate Installation Wizard", which will evaluate the reliability of the connection, after which you just need to install the certificate. After confirming the successful installation, the problem should disappear.
Browser bug fix using Mozilla Firefox as an example
Browsers are a bit more complicated. As a rule, the message that an error occurred while establishing a secure connection is most often issued by the “fire fox”.
Correct the situation as follows. First, when the browser is turned off, you should go to your browser profile in the "Explorer" (the profile folder is located on the system drive in the directory with the username of the Users directory, where you need to go to the AppData directory, then Roaming, then Mozilla, then Firefox , after that - Profiles, finally - <profile_firefox>) and delete the cert8.db file in the final directory (folders are hidden, so you first need to enable the display of such objects). Next, just launch the browser, a warning page appears about the connection being unreliable, then click on the line that indicates that the user understands all the risks.
Note: in addition, in tls_tickets security settings, by double-clicking, you can change the parameter value to false. Just in case, you can check if the AdBlock blocking extension is enabled.
Problems with torrent trackers
Torrent trackers, as you know, the governments of many countries do not particularly indulge, considering that such sites host exclusively pirated content. Partly the way it is, but not always. One such resource is the NNM.Club tracker. An error while establishing a secure connection appears on it quite often.
The tracker itself is now serviced exclusively by two addresses - 81.17.30.22 and 193.201.227.16. If something else is issued when pinging the address, it means that spontaneous redirection occurs. In this case, you just need to clear the DNS cache, see if there are entries for these addresses in the HOSTS file at the bottom of the text, finally, you can simply set exclusion rules for these IPs in the antivirus or in the firewall.
In extreme cases, if it is problematic for an ordinary user to make it or the solution does not help, instead of the torrent file, you need to download the so-called magnet link and run it in the corresponding torrent program. In principle, the same applies to other trackers.