safari can't establish a secure connection

Hey that saved my bacon,

I tried all the usual resets,cache emptying etc,but still I couldn't get onto several key websites for me on Safari.

Then I saw the post about disabling web-shield on Avast and everything now works!

So a billion thanks to Incognito Cube!

I wonder if one can turn it back on again in the future?

I wanted to tell you the same guys but Farid7 was faster 🙂

If u are experiencing problems with safari telling u can not establish... also the battery problems like I did, after some time I realised it was all about the date and time.

I am happy too now 🙂

I had the exact same problem. I also searched through multiple forums but could not find a solution.

It was not my internet provider because the same websites worked on other devices. So I uninstalled

avast and rebooted my mac and it worked. It turns out avast web shield was causing the problem.

Furthermore, apparently it is now more dangerous to use a 3rd party anti-virus like avast because 1) they

have access to areas of your computer that you really do not want anything other than your OS to have access

to and 2) hackers now only have to get into the software and that is in (They have already hacked the wifi protocol).

AVG was also hacked by the way so you might as well uninstall avast.

Hope this helps

In my case it was the time setting. Remember if your time is off https authentication will not work. I fixed the time and time zone on my laptop and the issue went away. I hope this helps someone faced with the same issue.

Thanks the web shield was the issue. I disabled it and now everything works!!!

Same here. can't figure this out! did you manage to solve this?

Thanks!

-- amir

Avast causes problems. I suggest you remove it.

Avast

Avast Un-install

You really don't need an anti-virus program on a Mac. This one is one that operates fairly well with Macs.

ClamXav

i just disabled the avast web shield and everything is fine now ! thanks !

Be safe - see my longer answer in this thread from today.

Uninstall all your anti-virus software using the developer's uninstall instructions. The software isn't needed on a Mac and often hurts the computer's performance.

Avast

Avast Un-install

AVG Uninstall

yyes, this was spot on and everything is working fine now

Thanks Eric, but none of the suggestions in the links worked for me.

I should also add that exactly the same thing is happening in Firefox, with the message "Secure connection failed".

I use Sophos and This solved the problem immediately - thank you so much!

This has been annoying me for weeks!

The problem is with your certificates. Read the solution here: http://drkoch.dk/how-to-fix-safari-cant-open-the-page-because-safari-cant-establ ish-a-secure-connection/