The second issue that the Internet Recovery Kit addresses is broken SSL support which usually comes in the form of not being able to connect to HTTPS websites properly. This too can be problematic as many financial websites and shopping websites use https for improved security.

Rizone’s Internet Recovery Kit can be used to fix both issues that have been described in the last two paragraphs. All the user needs to do is to press the right button in the software program to initiate the fix. While there is no guarantee that the program can fix the problem the chance is good that it can.

Users who want to repair Windows Update and Automatic Updates on their computer system can press the Repair WU/AU button to do so. The program will display the progress in the log at the bottom of the interface. The log can also be used to analyse what has been done to fix the problem. The Repair SSL / HTTPS button on the other hand will initiate the repair of these components in the Windows operating system.

Rizone’s Internet Recovery Kit is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is a fine addition for every computer repair toolkit thanks to its portable nature, ease of use and success rate.

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There is one additional problem concerning websites that do offer HTTPS connections on most of their network but not everywhere. Mouser over at Donation Coder mentioned a hidden setting in the NoScript (check my Firefox security profile for additional information) add-on of the Firefox web browser allowing to force HTTPS connections for listed websites. This is helpful in a few cases. Some websites offer both HTTP and HTTPS connections to their servers. Another possibility are websites that make use of HTTPS connections but not on all pages.

Users with the excellent No Script add-on installed can configure sites to always use a secure https connection when they are visited. This option can be accessed by right-clicking the NoScript icon in the Firefox status bar, selecting Options from the context menu, clicking on the Advanced tab in the configuration and there on the HTTPS tab.

New websites or pages that should be forced to use secure HTTPS connections can be added to NoScript in there. The use of wildcards is possible. Users should however note that this will not work on all websites. It will obviously not work on websites that do not offer HTTPS. There are also sites that automatically redirect HTTPS requests to HTTP. Google.com is a prime example of this. If you add google.com to the list you will notice a never ending loop when opening that website because of NoScript trying to force HTTPS and Google redirecting to HTTP.

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It was still possible to open the https website manually but Google does not force the use of https. There is however a setting in Gmail that is called Browser Connection (discovered via Sizlopedia) where the user can select to Always Use HTTPS when he connects to Gmail.

I highly recommend to enable that setting to everyone who is using Gmail as a mail client but especially to those users who use additional Google services that already force https usage.

You can reach the configuration menu by clicking on the Settings link in the top right corner of the Gmail account. Scroll down to the very bottom of the menu that is showing up after clicking on the link and check the Always Use HTTPS box.

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