internet explorer - Google applications unreachable in Chrome/IE
2014-04
naspinski
As of today, when I try to go to https://gmail.com, I get the following error:
I am not sure if I have been compromised somehow or what. This is happening in Chrome and IE, not in Firefox. Any ideas?
Error text for crawls:
Cannot connect to the real www.gmail.com
Something is currently interfering with your secure connection to www.gmail.com.
Try to reload this page in a few minutes or after switching to a new network. If you have recently connected to a new Wi-Fi network, finish logging in before reloading.
If you were to visit www.gmail.com right now, you might share private information with an attacker. To protect your privacy, Chrome will not load the page until it can establish a secure connection to the real www.gmail.com.
WreithKassan
Please verify that the time on your computer is correct.
Just to be safe, go ahead and sync it to your timezone. Alot of these issues are easy fixes, because the time somehow got messed up.
TheCompWiz
In addition to WreithKassan's answer, There are two other less-likely possibilities:
- You're behind a captive portal, and it is attempting to redirect you to a login page of some sort
- Your root-certificate store has become corrupted. This can be the result of a virus or simple data-corruption.
BowlesCR
Assuming you're not on a hotel or corporate WiFi hotspot that may have a "captive portal" login mechanism, your DNS or Proxy settings may have been tampered with (possibly by a virus).
For DNS, this is a good guide - follow the "off campus" section.
For Proxy, check this.
Either of these things being misconfigured can hijack your connection, possibly redirecting it via a malicious server that may evesdrop on your connection.
Joel
Wanted to test the waters here regarding an issue I encountered while browsing a web page at work. We're sitting behind a proxy server. I'm not knowledgeable on the details of the proxy but can research with some folks I know at the security department if more info is necessary.
Thing is I was signed in at yahoo fantasy sports web site this morning and wanted a colleague to join a fantasy league. So I give him the league info and scoot over to his cubicle, not far from mine, when it happened. He opened the web page and my information was there. I mean, I was signed in on his browser (also chrome). I was still signed in so I went back to my desktop and signed out and then he also lost the session.
Needless to say, this baffled me and I'm very curious about the reason.
I don't have colleague's chrome version but mine stands at 3.0.195.27.
Matt
A few possibilities here non of which are likely Chromes fault.
- The proxy/router cached a copy of the web page and the web page
- The host site uses IP addresses to maintain login
- Your chrome installs share a common location for cookies and the site uses cookies to maintain logins
First step if you are worried about this would be to contact the network admin and ask about the webpage caching or if chrome installs share a common cookie/history location (not likely). If that doesn't work you could look into contacting the website to see how they authenticate users and if they use IP addresses.
The important thing to remember on the second point is if you both access the site from behind the same proxy it would likely appear that you are both coming from the same computer (IP/MAC Address) to the host site.
Austin Salonen
It's just a cached page in your proxy server. This has happened to me at every place I've worked where we used a proxy server (I only use Yahoo! fantasy sports). However, I was never able to browse my colleague's teams or profile.