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Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

aussie-picker — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:21:40 GMT

Anyone else having problems logging into Pay Pal website?

The https has turned red and the browser wont load , either goggle or chrome , saying the internet connection has been compromised.

Very weird , been like this since yesterday and I cant seem to fix it?

Never ever had a problem before with it in over 10 years.

Cheers Rick

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

cq_tech — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:11:54 GMT

No problems here, and I've used Paypal numerous times yesterday and last night. Just checked it again now and it's still working fine. Have you tried deleting your browser's cookies and cache?

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

harley_babes_hoard — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:12:20 GMT

all good here too

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

clarry100 — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:23:18 GMT

Try running a virus scan on your system.

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

aussie-picker — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:51:58 GMT

That fixed it !

Thanks for that appreciated.

Cheers Rick

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

aussie-picker — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:49:36 GMT

Problem Solved !!!!

After much success and then failure over the last few weeks. Doing my head in stuff

Would work, not work , work, not work.

Tried everything under the sun , to fix the problem.

Turns out the router my son connected to the 3 home computers also runs wireless as well , and I / we didnt know.

Had no lock on it so half the neighbourhood been hacking in for free Wi Fi the last 6 months and I never knew. lol.

Thats what was spazzing the server connection to Pay Pal out , Wi Fi log in, and to think of the arguments we had over my son useing up all the months data within 2 weeks , hammering him as a selfish you know what , lol.

Non Wi Fi cable router , no probs , everyones happy

Cheers Rick

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:17:55 GMT

All you had to do was log into your router and password it to make it secure. When I first went aDSL, I didn't have a password on mine because I thought I had to put the password in every time I wanted to use it. Turns out that wasn't the case.

Given that half the neighbourhood has been accessing your unsecured router, first thing I'd be doing is changing all your passwords, especially net banking (which you should do regularly anyway). It may not just have been the neighbours using your connection. You'd be surprised how far away someone can be and use your connection with ease. My brother used to own an ISP and his best friend who lived 2 doors up across the road used to use his connection with no problems at all.

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

aussie-picker — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:33:51 GMT

Now you tell me lol,

Nah , Its all good and taken care of , nothing compromised .

I sent my son to buy and install the new router , I never checked nor looked at it .

Neither did he ? Teenagers Thesedays.

Is all good

But boy did I bust his **bleep** monthly , I find it funny now.

" It wasnt me " Sure !

A trap for the Unwary for Sure.

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:06:53 GMT

Just for the future, wifi connections through your router can be limited by the MAC addresses of your PC, mobiles, tablets.

MAC = Media Access Control

it is a unique identifier for the device. The router then has a list of the MAC addresses of allowed devices, once you enter them, and will block access by anything not on the list. Like a doorman at a club 🙂

another layer of security to prevent unauthorised use by others 🙂

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

cq_tech — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:55:12 GMT

That's an excellent idea, Amber. As chooks has quite correctly pointed out, your own WiFi signal can be received as far as 100m or more from your router which puts you within access of not just your neighbours, but also anybody driving around the area looking for a stray WiFi signal to try to hack or piggy-back.

When I first connected my laptop to the WiFi router, I was horrified to notice that aside from my own signal, there were six others with more than adequate signal levels to which I could also connect had they not been security-locked, including 2 others from Optus, 2 from Telstra, 1 from Sky, and another simply classified as 'unknown'. Surprised the hell out of me, it did.

Re: Pay Pal https connection turned Red wont connect ?

i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:05:38 GMT

I too was surprised when I bought my new phone in April, and was setting up the wifi for the home network on that, just how many arround me were detected. I know there are at least 3 houses in close proximity that don't have internet at all, so the signals must carry further than what we realise. These all had strong signals too, so could easily have been used had they not been secured.