Yahoo Mail Connection Refused

Well I don't want to have to do a system restore just for accessing one website. I am not having problems with any other sites as far as I can tell. I can get to the main Yahoo email page. It's only when I try to log in that I get the error message. So I'm thinking it must just be a setting somewhere for ports or secure sites or something.

But thank you for the suggestion

You may be having a problem with your Java and Script engine..

Click on the link to Sun's Java below, then click on the "Download JRE 5.0 Update 5" download link that is in the "JRE 5.0 Update 5 includes the JVM technology" section. Download the full "Windows Offline Installation" file to your desktop,(about 15 MB), scan it with your antivirus (just to be sure it's clean), then install Java 1.5 from the installer.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

AFter that, download and install the updated Script engine from the appropriate link below:

Windows Script 5.6 for Windows 2000 and XP

At the link above, you'll need to validate your version of XP which isn't a problem as long as its legal.

After everything is installed, then open the Control Panel, double click on the "Internet Options" icon, then click on the "Advanced" tab. When that loads, scroll down to the "Java(Sun)" section and make sure there is a CHECK mark next to: "Use Java,....". Click on Apply. Then scroll to the "Multimedia" section and place a CHECK mark in the "Play Sounds In Web Pages", "Play videos in Web Pages", & "Show pictures" box and UNCHECK the box next to "Show download Placeholders:", then click on Apply, then Ok.

Hope this helps.

Grif

Hi there Grif,

First of all thank you for such detailed intructions. They were easy to follow. However it did not work. I am still receiving the same error messages from any secure sites. With IE I get a ''Page cannot be displayed...'' and with Mozilla I get ''Connection refused when attempting to contact..''

Any other suggestions you or anyone else might have to help me out would be greatly appreciated. I am stumped on this....Just can't figure out what the problem is. I have tried everything I can think of.

Thanks again...

Simone

Thanks for everyone's input. But I discovered the problem finally. It appeared that Norton was corrupted and the firewall was blocking access to secure sites even though I had disabled it. A full uninstall and the problem went away.

Hy all,

I am using linux mint, i have no firewall running and no antivirus.
I left my computer open with the yahoo mail session open.
I think that is causing my problem, and that's why I encountered the same error as you.
I am sure that this is not an Operating System or a browser issue since all websites are working well and I cannot have some kind of virus in linux.
Did everyone had the same issue after letting yahoo mail session open? (I left it open for about 2 hours because I left home).
I do not think a fresh install of the OS will do the job, and I also think it is stupid to do this just for Yahoo mail.
I am waiting a fix from yahoo because i saw that lately they have interface problems, and I think this is just a screwed security feature of the servers.
This is another reason that I will surely use just my Google mail account if they do not fix it.
I will try to log in o different servers, maybe wireshark captures to see if i find if I find the issue, and come back and post it.
I will also try log in with tor to have other ip address.

Hy all,

I am nut sure what is the main issue but I think I found a fix.
I did a nslookup for "mail.yahoo.com" and the servers for my country were :

Name: eu-eulogin.lga1.b.yahoo.com
Address: 217.146.187.123
Name: eu-eulogin.lga1.b.yahoo.com
Address: 188.125.82.242

I put the wrote the ip 217.146.187.123 in the browser and i could log in.
Try this and tell us if that worked also for you, and maybe someone will give tell us what is the exact problem and maybe we will find a fix.