Since Saturday! none of my browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Camino, OmniWeb) have been unable to access any http website, although https websites loaded as normal.
It took a fair bit of messing about (including reinstalling Mavericks twice!) before I identified the culprit - Sophos Web Protection.
Now it may be me misunderstanding how it works or having some setting(s) wrong but if I disabled that option normal service was restored.
Under Preferences, there are two tabs under the Web Protection section: General and Allowed Websites.
The latter was completely blank with no entires in the table area.
The former, general! has two switches,
1) Block access to malicious websites using real time URL reputation checks ...…
2) Block malicious downloads from websites ...…
I had both if these set to On as I presumed that that's what I wanted to software to do. But, with those options selected, access to each and every website with an http address was blocked yet I could gain access to all https sites!
Now, my assumption is that when I visited a website Sophos would check a database to see if the site were suspect and block those, and only those, on that database.
So why, in my case, was every http site blocked? Surely the whole of the interwebbynettything hasn't suddenly gone rogue overnight?
What am I doing wrong? Are my settings wrong, could there be a conflict with something else, or is there a bug in Sophos v9?
Thanks in advance.
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